Re: Squid vs. Netscape Proxy

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Jordyn A. Buchanan wrote:

> At 4:26 PM -0400 4/20/98, Michael Pelletier wrote:
>
> >I think that the first question to ask would be whether the requirement
> >for three servers and load-balancing is simply to compensate for the
> >inadequacies of the Windows NT operating system platform -- or whether a
> >single hefty server running a UNIX-derived operating system could handle
> >the entire workload of three Windows NT systems.
>
> A single hefty UNIX system won't provide the redundancy of multiple NT
> systems even if it provides similar performance. Of course, the logical
> thing to do is to get multiple UNIX servers as opposed to a bunch of NT
> servers, but I'm not really sure that NT was specified at a previous point
> in this thread.

I think the original poster was talking about distributing three caches
(or cache clusters) in the wide area. A cluster of unix boxes running
squid in each city (with round-robin DNS set up to spread load across each
machine in the cluster) should work pretty well.

I didn't notice the "NT" word in the original post (but then again, I
didn't read it very well :)

Clearly any approach which avoids NT is a good one :)

Joe

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