Re: [squid-users] Squid vs caching products like memcached

2007-05-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, May 16, 2007, lightbulb432 wrote: > > Great answer, thanks! > > How does Squid's page caching ability work in terms of caching pages (as > though they are static) but that were generated dynamically? > > For example, Amazon.com's homepage is dynamic but not generated dynamically > on eac

Re: Re: [squid-users] Squid vs caching products like memcached

2007-05-16 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by lightbulb432 [Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:39:29AM -0700]: > > Great answer, thanks! > > How does Squid's page caching ability work in terms of caching pages (as > though they are static) but that were generated dynamically? > > For example, Amazon.com's homepage is dynamic but not generated

Re: [squid-users] Squid vs caching products like memcached

2007-05-16 Thread lightbulb432
Great answer, thanks! How does Squid's page caching ability work in terms of caching pages (as though they are static) but that were generated dynamically? For example, Amazon.com's homepage is dynamic but not generated dynamically on each request for that page; rather, I assume they set it to b

Re: [squid-users] Squid vs caching products like memcached

2007-05-16 Thread Sean Walberg
On 5/16/07, lightbulb432 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's the difference between the reverse proxying features of Squid and a caching product like memcached? Memcached is a distributed, in memory, hash table with a network interface. Most often you stuff the results of expensive queries (dat

Re: [squid-users] Squid vs caching products like memcached

2007-05-16 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by lightbulb432 [Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:16:44AM -0700]: > > What’s the difference between the reverse proxying features of Squid and a > caching product like memcached? > Memcache has nothing to do with proxying. Squid talks http and caches http objects, memcache talks the memcache protoco