IMHO non of the ISP in India (tested dot, vsnl, satyam, dishnet ) runs a
proxy server, basically because of two reasons,
1. The proxy server requirement are huge like ram, cpu power, hard disk.
2. They just don't care.
The best thing would be to have your own proxy server on linux box like
wwwoffled, or squid. The squid is resource hungry.
Best Regards,
M.S.Deshmukh,
Director.
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - http://betacomp.com
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From: Dr. S.K. singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sunday, July 02, 2000 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] web page caching in india
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>--Dr. S.K. Singh--
>--Senior Scientist--
>--Agril. Res. services--
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>On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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.
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>> i have read that in several countries that is the default practice and
>> every ISP does that. it increases the web access speed drastically.
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>It appers to me that two things should be done.
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>1. Mirroring important sites i.e. www.apache.org, php3.org,
>metalab.unc.edu etc
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>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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