"Bhattacharyya, Somraj" wrote: > > Hi guys !! > > "If we replicate a web server and place it near as near as possible to a > client then we might not require caching servers." This is a general > statement and vissible for very large and popular web servers. > > If a multinational company puts different web servers for different > continents , its not only able to reduce the network traffic but also > provides a better response time to the users.Lots of huge conpanies also > doing that. > But the servers should be same, that is one master(updatable) and others > slave(viewable). Like the same way we configure parent and child proxies in > squid. But instead of caching I am thinking direct replication between those > servers to give support for a large number of users ( a country or may be > more than one country). > > Please note: Say by using say 5000 caching servers (roughly)we are serving a > country, where same web pages are cached in dfferent severs.May be two > servers side by side on a same table containing the same page, solving > problem but isnt it wasting resources.But one replicated server of a > particular website could handle the same situation, but ofcourse only for > that web site. > > How can squid and apache can technically help me to support this idea.Mainly > to support replicating web doucuments with in web servers not caching. > > Please share your ideas.
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-1.html#ss1.1 Squid won't be able to help you. M. > Thanks > Somraj -- 'Love is truth without any future. (M.E. 1997)
