[AusNOG] squid peering mesh

[Damien Morris]

On 2/02/11 7:06 PM, "Chris Keladis" <ckeladis at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Damien Morris <damien at yahoo-inc.com>
>wrote:
>>You hear more about squid being used as transparent caches for paranoid
>>management to monitor their uses, or as reverse proxies in front of
>>webservers than caching consumer data these days.
>On the subject of reverse-proxies, i've heard Varnish is pretty sweet
>(read: fast) :)
>http://www.varnish-cache.org/about

Any advantages over squid besides speed..? I'll forego any soapboxing here
about well architected web applications requiring reverse-proxies at all..
=)
 

>>Dynamic web pages, cheaper/faster bandwidth and SPoF issues with proxies
>>have all seen their use at ISPs diminish.
>When long-fat-pipes (satellite and the like) were all the rage, proxy's
>helped reduce HTTP RTTs (or increased them for a miss) :)
>But these days, as they say, YMMV :)

I definitely, sadly, remember the days when they were necessary :) I
forgot to also mention that CDNs take away many of the reasons to run your
own proxies these day, and do a much better job of it..

Cheers,
Damien.