Re: [Sheflug] Webcache/Proxy

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 
> Hi Baz,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:55:37PM +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> >  The server to be used has 512Mb physical RAM and 3x 9GB SCSI drives
> > (possibly run in RAID 5, but I don't like that idea too much), and there
> > may be a smaller drive used for / .
> 
>         Hmmm, I could do with some of that for my server running on 20
> megs harddrive and 8 megs RAM :-) Small is beautiful.

 Mmmm. I know - crazy spec. Other branches are just using desktop
machines, and we're going all out!
Server will hopefully be replaced with a new machine. I'd have said
there are still a few years in it yet...

>         Also, have you considered using FreeBSD? I read sometime ago
> that it's really good when it comes to squidding things around...

 I have, however the other webcaches (and some other machines) within
the company are running on Linux, and both myself and the IT guys are
more familiar with Linux - depending on how much time there is before we
go live and what else needs to done things might change, but I doubt it.
 Gonna try and keep it to what the company will be happy to support.
Don't want to scare them with *BSD boxen (yet) :-)

 Cheers for the links.

 Baz.

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