Re: [squid-users] general question regarding future caching proxies

Van Bossche Koen wrote:

> I have a general question regarding the use of webcaching proxies. I assume
> within time it will not have any advantage anymore using webcaching proxies,
> since more and more I see non cacheable pages and bandwith getting cheaper.
> In that case what would be the really benefit of still using caching
> proxies?

Bandwidth is still a scarse resource in most parts of the world, and
even if more and more of the web HTML content is becoming dynamic, the
cache can still help a lot on images which still mostly are static.

But yes, if you live in a part of the worl where bandwidth is very cheap
and well connected, then caching might cost more than it returns in
savings. Als, Squid has fallen behind a bit on the performance edge
relatively to the bandwidth increases making Squid caching more
expensive than it ought to be, but this is something we hope to be able
to address, making Squid caching more favorable even if well connected.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker
Received on Fri Oct 26 2001 - 16:52:29 MDT