That¹s the way I feel about it. The cost of bandwidth vs. the support and maintenance is a pain. Squid was nice 10 years ago when we had static content. With all the dynamic database driven content it can be a pain for the ISP. If you were an Enterprise Squid might make sense. -- Justin Wilson <[email protected]> http://www.mtin.net http://www.metrospan.net
From: RickG <[email protected]> Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:34:46 -0400 To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] NPR Story on FCC Broadband Plan and Internet AccessinTrinity County California No thanks - something else to maintain. I'd rather pay for the bandwidth. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Justin Wilson - MTIN <[email protected]> wrote: > We now have a client running Squid. There are some sites out there which > maintain a list of major sites you should not be caching. You can add > these as exceptions. > -- > Justin Wilson <[email protected]> > http://www.mtin.net > http://www.metrospan.net > > > > From: Jason Wallace <[email protected]> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:00:58 -0700 > To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] NPR Story on FCC Broadband Plan and Internet > AccessinTrinity County California > > I ran a squid cache (3.1.X) and saw about a 30% bandwidth savings. But it > broke facebook... No more squid. > > > Jason W > RickG wrote: >> >> Then you get the calls saying "I cant get to this website" or "the >> website doesnt come up right", etc.etc. >> >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jeromie Reeves <[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> A caching proxy server would help that a lot. 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