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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:52:55 +0100 (CET)
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From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: "Open Systems Inc." <opsys@open-systems.net>
Subject: RE: QUESTION: FBSD + SQUID or FBSD + APACHE?
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On 13-Jan-99 Open Systems Inc. wrote:

>       We are moving to a new building in ~45 days. They have a NT web
> server farm of around 15 boxes. All the boxes sit on a switched ethernet 
> network. The question I have is what would be faster and be the biggest
> performance boost: Squid doing caching + accelerating the NT web servers
> on FBSD of course, or Apache + Proxy/Caching module?
 
>       Basically what im trying to do is pull the web content from the NT
> boxes over to a FBSD box and make the FBSD boxes do the actuall serving
> because they will obviously perform alot better.

Go with Apache and a caching module, as Squid is purely based on caching
HTTP data and not really serving this data, whereas Apache is a pure HTTPd.

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven    A veil of smoke is what I am,
asmodai(at)wxs.nl                         I wait and I wait...
Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>
BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve     <http://www.freebsd.org>

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