--Dr. S.K. Singh--
--Senior Scientist--
--Agril. Res. services--
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Dr. S.K. singh" wrote:
> >
> > > On 30 Jun 00, at 13:40, Syed Khader Vali wrote:
> > >
> > > Do you mean that when i
> > > request an url, it comes from my isp's cache? If yes, then it seems
> > > to be taking too long...Am not sure of the underlying things hre, and
> > > sure would like to know.
> > >
>
> i don't think that in india any ISP is storing the server pages in its
> cache and displaying from there. that's why, as you noticed, it is
> taking too long.
But most ISP (for that matter our ISP) runs a good proxy server, what we
can do is to cache the material in that proxy either directly ( if we
havestandlone machine ) or via local proxy server i.e. squid.
> i have read that in several countries that is the default practice and
> every ISP does that. it increases the web access speed drastically.
It appers to me that two things should be done.
1. Mirroring important sites i.e. www.apache.org, php3.org,
metalab.unc.edu etc
2. Having an excellent proxy server in each ISP station............
i.e proxy cache with 1 GB RAM, 30 or more GB HDD.....of very gightransfer
rate.
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