On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Sameer R. Manek wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Chris Pugrud wrote:
>
> > Apache has a pretty good web/ftp proxy function built in. The caching
> > functionality doesn't seem to be very effective, but I really haven't
> > played with the settings. For added security I tend to run two apache
> > daemons, one for the inside with the proxy functions built in, and one
> > for the outside web server that is stripped and gutted to the bare
> > essentials (the less code there is, the less that can be compromised).
> >
>
> I like using apache to do double duty as proxy/webserver, but then again
> my security model isn't as strict as yours probably is. One free proxy
> server that i've heard is pretty good with performance is Squid,
> (squid.nlanr.net) Has anyone tried this one out? Any reactions to it's
> performance/security?
>
> Sameer
Squid is really good - we have about 180.000 hits/day and 2 GB www-
traffic/day. squid runs on a linux-box (amd k6/200, 128 mb ram)
and there have been absolutly no problems till today.
Ralf
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