Re: [squid-users] Squid in the Enterpise

Good points. I was thinking the same thing.

By Open Source fear I meant that fear of using something now blessed by a major company you can read about on CNN Money.

R

--- On Thu, 7/17/08, Rhino <rhino_at_machlink.com> wrote:

> From: Rhino <rhino_at_machlink.com>
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid in the Enterpise
> To: "Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães" <leolistas_at_solutti.com.br>
> Cc: "ML squid" <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 5:16 PM
> Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote:
> >
> >
> > Robert V. Coward escreveu:
> >> I am running into the standard "Open
> Source" fear at my local site.
> >> Can anyone name some major companies that use
> Squid. We are talking
> >> enterprise or ISP here. We currently have about
> 100,000 users with
> >> heavy streaming video use. Some of the management
> are afraid Squid
> >> will not be able to handle the load.
> >> Our planned deployment box is a 8-way, 16GB ram,
> 1TB (6 disks I think)
> >> server which will be running RedHat Enterprise
> Linux.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > in my opinion 100k users are just too much to a
> single machine, even
> > if it's a 'super' machine. And let's
> not think about machine load ...
> > let's think on a machine crash of failure of some
> kind. 100k users are
> > enough users for you to start thinking on some
> clustering of some kind.
> >
> > i agree with Richard Hubbell ..... 100k users are
> just enough for you
> > to look for some expert to analyze and build this
> project for you.
> >
> > we're not talking of 100 or 1k users ...
> we're talking of 100k. 100k
> > users on a standard (not optimized) device/system
> configuration will
> > probably trash any cache solution and squid wont be an
> exception.
> >
>
> besides the items previously addressed (and should we
> mention many of
> the "commercial" caches use open solutions?),
> you should bear in mind that for a cache to be truly
> effective at
> bandwidth conservation (if that is your goal) it
> needs to be placed close to the users. So if you're
> talking about an
> ISP with 100k users, I doubt they all reside
> on one or two LANs - and you'd do well to establish a
> topology with
> several caches servicing their own groups
> of users. What you'll save in having to add additional
> bandwidth
> overall would surely recoup the costs of the
> additional hardware, imho.
> hth
> -Ryan
Received on Fri Jul 18 2008 - 11:37:16 MDT