Squid and MogileFS

Mike Withers m.withers at uws.edu.au
Tue Aug 7 00:06:58 UTC 2007


More precicely

A reverse proxy (rp) can be caching-rp or non-caching-rp.

Regards Mike Withers

-----Original Message-----
From: perlbal-bounces at lists.danga.com
[mailto:perlbal-bounces at lists.danga.com] On Behalf Of Brad Fitzpatrick
Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 2:08 AM
To: drpr0ctologist at gmail.com
Cc: perlbal at lists.danga.com
Subject: Re: Squid and MogileFS

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, drpr0ctologist at gmail.com wrote:

> >
> > 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).
> >
> Earlier you mentioned that Typepad.com uses both Perlbal and Squid.  To my
> understanding, only reverse proxying is needed to do caching of websites.

That is incorrect.

Caching is different than reverse proxying.

- Brad



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