Re: [squid-users] when to use cache cluster?

SQL Camel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When running with reverse proxy mode, when should we consider to use cache cluster rather than all separate cache boxes?
> From what I know, no matter with parents or with siblings every cache has all the objects of others, so is cache cluster really meaningful?
>

When the origin server is too slow or too far away or needs to do too
much work to generate and/or check objects.

Also when you don't want each proxy to maintain its own duplicate cache
use a peer clustering protocol that prevents duplicates. They are listed
in the cache_peer documentation.

Amos

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