[CentOS] squid server for 10,000 accounts

[NiftyClusters T Mitchell]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> Regarding the Load Balancing, I find ipvsadm to be a very good package.
>> I'm not well-versed with squid, but for 10,000 users, I should image
>> that hardware is not sufficient (especially if they're all requesting
>> pages at the same time?)
>> My immediate hunch would be to set up a virtualised squid proxy, and
>> then copy that across to be hosted on multiple servers.  Providing it's
>> set up in a scalable fashion (maybe NFS share for config/rules) across
>> the entire cluster - you should be able to have a very scalable solution.
>
> Squid supports cache peering, cache hierarchies, and multicast ICP.  I'd
> setup Squid peers.
>
> <http://www.deckle.co.za/squid-users-guide/Cache_Hierarchies>
>
>

Exactly... and it is possible to have a 'URL' as your proxy.  It can contain
hints and be dynamic over time making it "easy" to update the proxy environment.
and you have a single instruction for all your 10000 users.   While
some stuff can
be done with DHCP, the URL trick is powerful and sets a stage such
that the squid
admin folk do not need  to touch a complex DHCP setup.


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