Squid and MogileFS

drpr0ctologist at gmail.com drpr0ctologist at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 15:55:38 UTC 2007


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> Depends how you use Squid.
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> If you use Squid to do caching, Perlbal won't help you.
> If you only use Squid to do reverse proxying, Perlbal's much better (IMO).
>
Earlier you mentioned that Typepad.com uses both Perlbal and Squid.  To my
understanding, only reverse proxying is needed to do caching of websites.
Why would they need both Squid and Perlbal then?




On 8/6/07, Brad Fitzpatrick <brad at danga.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, drpr0ctologist at gmail.com wrote:
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> > >
> > > No.  Several large sites do this.  Typepad.com, for instance.
> >
> > Can Perlbal replace Squid? Or do they serve different purposes?
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> Depends how you use Squid.
>
> If you use Squid to do caching, Perlbal won't help you.
> If you only use Squid to do reverse proxying, Perlbal's much better (IMO).
>
> - Brad
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