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>At my place of employment, we use the Squid package to provide proxy
caching of web pages. Squid offers high-performance caching of web
clients, and also supports FTP, Gopher, and HTTP requests. In addition,
Squid can be hierarchically linked to other Squid-based proxy servers for
streamlined caching of pages.</P
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>There are two versions of Squid currently available. One, the
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of RAM. The second version, <SPAN
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is suitable for machines with less RAM (I recommend using this version if
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uses less memory at the expense of more file descriptors. It's the one I
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>To keep up with new features and bug-fixes, it is a probably a good
idea to upgrade the Squid server from time to time. More information on
Squid can be found on web site at <A
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