Jul
25
Squid Proxy: Introduction
Posted by suvi under Networking, Server
Squid is a caching proxy server that can provide enhanced performance for HTTP and FTP. Squid will cache commonly accessed sites so that it can improve performance by 10-20% for Internet connections.
Here is the Official Squid Site: http://www.squid-cache.org/
Squid is compliant to the Harvest Cache architecture and uses the Inter-Cache Protocol (ICP) to transfer data between peer and /parent/child servers. Squid can accelerate traffic from the inside network to the Internet or it can be employed to act as a front-end accelerator for a Web server, increasing access to the web pages on the server.
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