Re: [squid-users] Replication not Caching

You can define your website in squid that will not cache. and if you talk
about replication then you can use some software or better to use dns with
round robin fashion......

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Best Regs,
Masood Ahmad Shah
System Administrator

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bhattacharyya, Somraj" <02008937@napier.ac.uk>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: [squid-users] Replication not Caching


| 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.
| Thanks
| Somraj
|