> Do you have at least one extra box laying around? Check out > http://www.squid-cache.org/ for a great, fast, free open > source cache proxy. I've seen a squid box saturate a NIC in > high traffic situations while keeping very low CPU and memory > utilization levels. > > Works like this - set up your squid box and direct all traffic > to it. Traffic hits the squid box and sends cached pages back to > the browser when it has them, if it doesn't have them, it grabs > the page from your cf box and adds it to cache. > > You can use cfhttpheader tags to control the length of time > squid keeps a page in cache, and you can also use > cfhttpheader to make squid not cache authenticated users, > only browsing users. > > This will effectively offload all static page and image > traffic to your proxy server and leaves your cf box to just > deal with dynamic queries.
Not to nitpick - I think this is a very good suggestion - but I think you mean CFHEADER, not CFHTTPHEADER. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188831 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
