On 13 October 2005 19:30, Gentoo Shadow wrote: > dear friends, > > i have a small Internet cafe in my home town. so it powered by a 128Kbps > leased line. but its speed is vary from time to time. so i decide to deploy > a squid-cache server. i already have a spare p3 800Mhz,256MB SD-RAM,40GB > 7200rpm hdd machine. so > > 1) is this configurations enough for my deployment? if not pls advice me to > implement a good cache server.
That box should do it. I would add more ram, though. As much as you can fit into it. The more squid can cache in ram, the faster it is. > > 2) is it possible to take an advantage by deploying a squid-cache server > for an Internet cafe? Depending on your users habits, you will save between 5 and 30% of your traffic. You have to bear in mind, though, that a large number of the most popular web sites are non-cacheable. News sites, for instance. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
