RE: I need a good proxy server. Any ideas?

[Alan Harding <alanh flashmail com>]

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 17:43, Banze, Andreas wrote:
> > every proxy that does caching requires too much memory.
> > it is not complicated, it is you - unqualificated :P
> > 
> > Squid can also be used as a non-caching proxy.
> 
> too much overhead.
>  
> > btw, what is this "compressing proxy" ?
> 
> You know http gzip compression? Imagine a proxy that packs all traffic
> before transferring it to the client (you might do that with jpgs, gifs and
> so on as well using one of the many algorithms the people use to shrink
> image file sizes, AOL used it so that images in the AOL browser looked a
> little bit fuzzy).
>

Good Grief, a proxy that compresses amd decompresses!!! Well if you ever
wanted to get something to give you an overhead on memory and Processor,
thats got to be it.

A properly configured squid system is the best way to go, have a look at
setting the amount of threads it uses, for a single user machine it
shouldnt need to be many. As for the updates, is it necessary to have
THE latestversion of everything that is there. I am a firm believer in
that "if it aint broke, dont fix it"

just my 2c worth