On Monday 03 March 2003 22.43, Alireza Naderi wrote: > I know that this mailing list is just for squid, but i > have a question > about cache servers. > Do any one work with one of them?
I am partial as we build commercial Squid based cache servers with filtering subscription options.. B-) > Do you think which of them is better and have more > ability and performance? Squid is perhaps not among the fastest among all the player, but generally the most flexible and versatile, even if some of the configuration aspects of Squid is a bit arcane until you get acclimatised to squid.conf.. > How about filtering with them? What about filtering? (see below) > Is it necessary to install others product such as > smartfilter & websence? No matter which cache server you use you need a subscription to a good filtering service if you want such function. Which filtering services are supported varies with the product. Some support Squid, some don't. None of the filter providers are supported by Squid as-is and all need extra software and/or patches to be installed. Details depends on the selected web filter provider. There is a major difference between the commercial cache vendors and Squid in that for the commercial cache vendors it is in the commercial cache vendors interest to have support for web filter services and is who selects which web filter providers you may use with their product, but with Open Source proxies like Squid each filter provider have the option to provide the needed support. Regards Henrik
