RE: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my setup

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Williams [mailto:jwilliams@courtesymortgage.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:14 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my setup
>
>
> Greetings everyone.
>
> After a long hard fought battle, I finally have received permission to
> run squid on our network. I've always run squid on my home network (with
> great success) and now im looking to do it in the corporate world. With
> that, I was hoping to get some type of idea on hardware needs and
> possible some suggestions on where to buy/get my hardware.
>
> Ok. Company is around 70 people currently. Growth is very real
possibility.
> Coupled with using squid, I will also be using:
> http://dansguardian.org/ For web content filtering. (And won't I come
> out smelling like roses when I show them we don't have to pay $15k for a
> web content system!)
>
> That's it for now. Squid + web content filtering.
>
> I know squid uses more memory than CPU power. what about disks? SCSI?
> IDE? does it matter? Obviously, I would like good performance, but
> prefer security over performance.
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jaso

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-3.html#ss3.1

and

http://wwwcache.ja.net/servers/squids.html

Sure, it might be old information, but gives you an idea...

Spend your money on quality parts. For so few users, the speed of the parts
is not going to be too important. Any Pentium II based system would
(likely) be more than enough to handle the load placed by 70 concurrent
users. Memory is certainly important, but most of your cache is going to
wind up on disk.

Chris
Received on Fri Jun 10 2005 - 16:48:48 MDT