RE: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-05-02 Thread Eric Cholet
> OK, I can't figure this out.. help me out here. I want to deal with my > virtual hosts on the heavyweight server. The frontend server should just > be a simple thing that I never have to touch. Matt, you might want to check out this patch to mod_proxy posted to new-httpd by Sam Tregar: "ProxyR

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-28 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > I'm behind a 64k leased line here (net access is *extremely* expensive > > here in the UK) and I was thinking, a proxy front end is probably really > > not necessary for me. Worst case scenario: I get 8 clients connecting

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > I'm behind a 64k leased line here (net access is *extremely* expensive > here in the UK) and I was thinking, a proxy front end is probably really > not necessary for me. Worst case scenario: I get 8 clients connecting to > my at about 1KB/s - my pipe is maxed out anyway,

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread Vivek Khera
> "MS" == Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> OK, I can't figure this out.. help me out here. I want to deal with my MS> virtual hosts on the heavyweight server. The frontend server should just MS> be a simple thing that I never have to touch. Front end must be virtual-host aware a

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread shane
You need to take a sledge hammer to your config... get rid of almost EVERYTHING. Here is a copy of mine..., oh, and you might want to look back a few days, I posted a really good link about mod_proxy and mod_rewrite. Or search apache's site for mod_proxy, or just proxy... that's how I came up wi

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > 1 mod_perl process could handle all the load > > you could possibly generate, and just let the mod_proxies build up and > > you'll see a lot lower memory usage on your box... seriously, in low > > bandwidth situations if your using the box for more th

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You could however have someone with much more bandwidth than you use > mod_proxy to proxy and cache your site. Like someone such as myself > where bandwidth in the US is so cheap it's ridiculous. Upgrading to > T1 size pipe in a couple weeks at $20

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread shane
You could however have someone with much more bandwidth than you use mod_proxy to proxy and cache your site. Like someone such as myself where bandwidth in the US is so cheap it's ridiculous. Upgrading to T1 size pipe in a couple weeks at $200/mo with DSL... hehe, too awesome. (384k now) So, l

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread Vivek Khera
> "d" == dreamwvr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: d> that is the whole point about squid since not all requests need to go all d> the way out there and all the way back:-)) The discussion here is using squid as a reverse proxy, to accelerate your httpd to the outside world. Not using squid

RE: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread Leon Brocard
Matt Sergeant wrote: > If I can't serve pages any faster, or to more people because > of bandwidth limitations - what good can it do me? dreamwvr may to trying to get the point across that squid could be on the ISP side of your 64K line. I don't think this is going to happen in practice, though

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread dreamwvr
hi, that is the whole point about squid since not all requests need to go all the way out there and all the way back:-)) On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, dreamwvr wrote: > > > hi, > > so your saying that say 'squid' would not be productive? seems > >

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, dreamwvr wrote: > hi, > so your saying that say 'squid' would not be productive? seems > to me that if you are caching http and ftp stuff well that is going to > provide you with the pseudo of more bandwidth.. since not all requests > need to go beyond squid .. b

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread dreamwvr
hi, so your saying that say 'squid' would not be productive? seems to me that if you are caching http and ftp stuff well that is going to provide you with the pseudo of more bandwidth.. since not all requests need to go beyond squid .. being delivered from the cache or chain of cache

Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-27 Thread Matt Sergeant
I'm behind a 64k leased line here (net access is *extremely* expensive here in the UK) and I was thinking, a proxy front end is probably really not necessary for me. Worst case scenario: I get 8 clients connecting to my at about 1KB/s - my pipe is maxed out anyway, so pushing them onto a proxy is