Re: [squid-users] Replication not Caching

"Bhattacharyya, Somraj" wrote:
>
> Hi guys !!
>
> "If we replicate a web server and place it near as near as possible to a
> client then we might not require caching servers." This is a general
> statement and vissible for very large and popular web servers.
>
> If a multinational company puts different web servers for different
> continents , its not only able to reduce the network traffic but also
> provides a better response time to the users.Lots of huge conpanies also
> doing that.
> But the servers should be same, that is one master(updatable) and others
> slave(viewable). Like the same way we configure parent and child proxies in
> squid. But instead of caching I am thinking direct replication between those
> servers to give support for a large number of users ( a country or may be
> more than one country).
>
> Please note: Say by using say 5000 caching servers (roughly)we are serving a
> country, where same web pages are cached in dfferent severs.May be two
> servers side by side on a same table containing the same page, solving
> problem but isnt it wasting resources.But one replicated server of a
> particular website could handle the same situation, but ofcourse only for
> that web site.
>
> How can squid and apache can technically help me to support this idea.Mainly
> to support replicating web doucuments with in web servers not caching.
>
> Please share your ideas.

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-1.html#ss1.1

Squid won't be able to help you.

M.

> Thanks
> Somraj

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