'Tis true.
Infact these days with so much rich content like flash and websites serving so
much dynamic content I don't really know what CAN be "cached" these days
besides images and maybe some small binary files.
------Original Message------
From: Jake Anderson
Sender: [email protected]
To: Matthew Hannigan
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Jim Donovan
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Traffic control
Sent: Feb 27, 2012 9:19 PM
keep in mind that without mucking with it / addons squid wont proxy
youtube (style) videos.
On 02/27/2012 11:56 AM, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:29:48PM +1100, Jim Donovan wrote:
>> Recently my ISP discontinued the ADSL plan I was on and put me on another
>> plan with three times the bandwidth. This is fine however one of the kids
>> likes watching YouTube and can now chew up a month's data in a few days.
> [ .. ]
>
> Jim,
> I suggest using a caching proxy like squid. They're very effective because
> kids tend to watch
> the same vids over and over again.
>
> You can set all sorts of limits within squid, too like time of day
> restrictions.
>
> Matt
>
>
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