RE: [squid-users] comparing squid with IIS 4.0

> -----Original Message-----
> From: khiz code [mailto:khizcode@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:29 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] comparing squid with IIS 4.0
>
>
> yeah
> no dout abt that
> but i was wondering that squid is very extensively used for
> front ending webservers when used in a reverse proxy
> environment so my understanding was that the client serving
> capability of squid would be more than that of a normal
> webserver ..and definitely more than IIS :-)

Well squid is aging internally, although recent (targeted for 2.6)
changes will help substantially. However, one point of having a
accelerator in front of the webserver is that the accelerator should
have lower latency than the web server for cached files, and ~
equivalent for misses.

The second point is that scaling some web content to multiple servers is
harder than scaling a web proxy farm.

Rob
Received on Wed Mar 20 2002 - 06:43:30 MST