Re: [FW1] Suggestions/Info for web caching servers

[Carric Dooley <carric@FW1-NOSPAMcom2usa.com>]

If the problem is with the web server, I would probably use something like
BigIP or TopLayer and add servers to create a web cluster.  Caching won't
help much if you are using dynamic content (like most everyone these
days).  BigIP also has some really cool stuff if you're using SSL.


Carric Dooley
Senior Consultant
COM2:Interactive Media

"But this one goes to eleven."
-- Nigel Tufnel


On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Andrew Bagrin wrote:

> If the problem is your bandwith to the internet then Novell's ICS is a great
> idea.  If the problem is with your web sever, and your Internet connection
> is not bogged down, then I'd stick with CacheFlow.  <----  My humble
> opinion.
> Andrew Bagrin
> Secure-1
>> www.secure-1.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carric Dooley <carric@com2usa.com>
> To: Milliken, Larry <lmilliken@uslec.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 12:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [FW1] Suggestions/Info for web caching servers
> 
> 
> >
> > If performance is #1, take a look at Novell's ICS.  I probably would'nt
> > consider and NT solution either.  Even on a RAID 0 partition, I have seen
> > drastic diminishing returns once you get over 2 gigs or so of cached data.
> >
> > That was approx 3500 users on a T1... I had to set cache aging to like 8
> > hrs, and that doesn't buy you very much on decreased link utilization.
> >
> >
> > Carric Dooley
> > Senior Consultant
> > COM2:Interactive Media
> >
> > "But this one goes to eleven."
> > -- Nigel Tufnel
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Milliken, Larry wrote:
> >
> > > Looking for some info/suggestions for web caching/Proxy servers to use
> > > behind Firewall-1..The solution can either be Unix or NT based..The
> emphasis
> > > is mainly on performance.
> > > Any suggestion/info would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Larry Milliken
> > > IT Security Engineer
> > > US LEC
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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