--On Montag, 28. April 2003 11:57 Uhr +0100 Marc Burgauer <marc@sharedbase.com> wrote:
Neither of us has any experience with the device. If anybody can share some insights in regard to Zope and how this compares in use something like Squid as a reverse proxy, I'd be most thankful.
Squid + Zope is used on several large production sites and my experiences are very good. Although you need to have some knowledge because Squid has a lot of configuration options and it takes some time to get Squid tuned in the right way.
On that note, what are the issues of running squid on the same machine as the Zope instance to be cached? Are substantial gains only achieved if Squid sits on its own box?
Depends on the load and the hardware of the machine. In general it is possible. For a site with lot of traffic I would a dedicated Squid machine. At least put the Squid cache and the Zope instance on different disks to spread IO. -aj