The fact that it's a unix based product might be a good reason why I'm not 
using it. I don't have a unix box or even a spare box to load linux up on 
(if it ran on linux).

> You may not need Squid, but I think that you'd be suprised at the
> speed improvement even on totally static .html files, not to mention
> ..cfm files that require processing time from CF.  You can avoid
> spending CF threads and memory and free up more resources for "real"
> CF requests.  Often, depending on how often the file is requested,
> Squid will serve it straight from RAM, skipping the hard drive read
> all together.
>
> Many high traffic sites like CNN.com use Squid (or similar) cache
> accellerators for static image files.  You can scale out with as many
> Squids as you need while only keeping one CF (or other) source machine
> in the background - making it a very cool scalability enhancer.
>
> -Cameron


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