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

From: Jon Kay <jkay@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 02:48:40 -0600

Brian wrote:
>
> 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.
 
Excellent point!

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