On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:33:07PM -0600, Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe wrote: > > Oh hey, forgot to mention another awesome thing you may want to add. I > know this sounds nuts, but you could probably get a reasonable VPS for > around $10 a month. Set up Ziproxy (a caching, compressing proxy) on > it, to compress images.. then point the squid proxy to the Ziproxy > vps.. _then_ point the in-house network computers to the squid > proxy/router. That will drastically cut down on bandwidth, and they > probably wouldn't notice anything was different. Also, there are > various ad-blocking proxies, that you may want to consider (I believe > Ziproxy actually does it). So they won't be downloading 1.5mb flash > ads, nor will they be downloading 800kb animated gifs for ONLINE > GAMBLING!!!).
That is not nuts at all; that's actually quite a remarkably
good idea. And one that has business merit to it: I know
of dialup users who have providers that do not provide
compression / caching services for their customers that could
greatly benefit from a solution like this.
When I was at Cafes we setup Propel to do this; Propel is a
commercial service offering which provides a small client app
on the clients machine that acts as a local proxy to handle
authentication and decompression services. Our customers at
that time seemed to really enjoy and appreciate the savings
that they were seeing.
John
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