Re: [squid-users] Why Squid is great (was: fourth cache off??)

From: Brian <hiryuu@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:07:06 -0500

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 12:04 pm, Jon Kay wrote:
> The best way to do that is buy cheap caches with good latency. And
> that means Squid. The swelltech entry that we were all watching had
> latency almost as good as any of the Big Guys.
>
> So what can a Squid vendor do to sell to a T3-connected ISP? If
> the ISP has just or two offices and POPs, then you're toast. If they
> have several POPs, well, maybe now we're in business. Sell them one
> for each.

I generally agree with your post, but I disagree with this point.

With a highly centralized T3 ISP, uptime becomes an important
consideration. In that situation, a cluster of smaller caches will offer
more failover opportunities than the 'big box' topology.

        -- Brian
Received on Wed Dec 19 2001 - 11:07:41 MST

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