Re: [squid-users] using squid to mirror files?

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On ons, 2007-09-19 at 15:55 +0200, Greg Kellum wrote:
>
>
>> from the main server. Um... I'm writing to ask whether anyone thinks
>> I will encounter any unexpected problems if I try to do this. As far
>> as I can tell, other people have been using Squid as an accelerator to
>> take the load of dynamically generated websites, but no one seems to
>> be using it for file mirroring. Is there a deeper reason for this?
>>
>
> Works quite fine for that as well.
>
> What quite many heavily loaded sites do is to use Squid to offload all
> static content (images etc), leaving the web server to only render the
> pages into HTML. And if the content is only semi-dynamic allowing the
> rendered pages to stay in the cache for some time to further offload the
> web server.
>
> If these audio files is a little larger you may need to allow larger
> files to get cached in squid.conf. See the maximum_object_size option.
> Default is 4 MB. There is no upper limit.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>

You might also look into using the Coral Content Distribution Network
(http://www.coralcdn.org/). It's free, and already widely distributed.

Chris
Received on Fri Sep 21 2007 - 13:04:15 MDT