On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Herman (ISTD) wrote: > Oh, I see .. so we put our squid machine as our front web server. Web > clients from Internet will talk to squid, and squid will talk to our > real web server and pass the information to the web clients. In my > understanding, the squid will cache some data that sometimes web client > request just fetch the data from squid.
Yes. > Despite the function describe above, is there any great benefit provided > by this mode of HTTP Accelerator ? And how relevant is this mode used by > web publishing nowadays ? It offloads the web server, giving it more resources to provide content. If is a simple way of scaling the web site beyond what a single web server is capable of. Regards Henrik
