CHEAP is territorial ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Johnson" <t...@ida.net> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai / other caching servers
> Been there, done ALL of that. Not worth the headaches. Bandwidth is > CHEAP now... time is still the most valuable thing in this business... > > I can spend hours messing, tweaking, fighting, adjusting, etc. a cache > proxy, or in that same amount of time I can go install a business > connection for $500/month and pay for ANY additional bandwidth it may > save me. And I can do this every day. :) > > Travis > Microserv > > > On 9/1/2010 2:29 PM, Blake Covarrubias wrote: >> On Sep 1, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Travis Johnson wrote: >> >>> Yes, but the bandwidth savings are not worth the headaches (another box >>> or two to maintain, some sites don't like to be cached, customer support >>> calls, web sites blocking a certain IP address because ALL the traffic >>> from your network is coming from the cache server IP, etc.). >> Its possible to prevent Squid from caching certain sites. Just create an >> ACL to deny caching them. Still too much to maintain? Deny caching all >> content by default, then create an ACL which only allows caching of sites >> you choose. >> >> If you don't want your proxy requests sourced from a single IP then use >> TProxy (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/Tproxy4). With this your >> proxy can be fully transparent appearing as if the requests were sourced >> directly from a client instead of your Squid box. >> >> Get a Cisco router and redirect traffic to Squid using WCCP. If your >> Squid box dies the router automatically stops redirecting the traffic, >> and your users continue to surf the web normally. >> >> -- >> Blake Covarrubias >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
