From Kathmann Labs
[edit] Squid Web Accelerator
- A web accelerator is also known as a reverse proxy. The web accelerator is placed directly in front of the web servers it is caching for, and accepts requests on behalf of the web servers. This is great for dynamic sites with content that doesn't change very often, or with sites that have tons of pictures and media. An example of a popular website that relies upon Squid cache for it's web accelerators is Wikipedia, which caches about 80% of it's hits. (See Wikimedia caching strategy)
- Image of the network layout for a web accelerator
[edit] Hardware
- Dell Poweredge SC440 (virtualized on VMWare Server)
[edit] Software
- linux
- Squid cache
[edit] Web Links
- Squid Cache Web Page
- Squid Cache Users Guide
[edit] How-tos
- Squid-Cache Web Accelerator on Red Hat (CentOS) Distrubutions
- Squid-Cache Web Accelerator on Debian (Ubuntu) Distributions
