<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Damien Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damien@yahoo-inc.com">damien@yahoo-inc.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
You hear more about squid being used as transparent caches for paranoid<br>
management to monitor their uses, or as reverse proxies in front of<br>
webservers than caching consumer data these days.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On the subject of reverse-proxies, i've heard Varnish is pretty sweet (read: fast) :)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.varnish-cache.org/about">http://www.varnish-cache.org/about</a></div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dynamic web pages, cheaper/faster bandwidth and SPoF issues with proxies<br>
have all seen their use at ISPs diminish.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When long-fat-pipes (satellite and the like) were all the rage, proxy's helped reduce HTTP RTTs (or increased them for a miss) :)</div><div>
<br></div><div>But these days, as they say, YMMV :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chris.</div></div>