Re: [squid-users] advanced caching question!!

Just a thought...

There are subscription services that do this with some level of
intelligence. They aren't terribly cheap, but they probably provide a
higher hit ratio than what you're proposing. Cidera is one such
service, and I think most of their competitors have left the field.
(Cidera doubled their rates about a year ago, and so I no longer know
anyone using the service--I can't say what the service is like these days.)

You might consider just using a more aggressive caching policy, to
increase your hit ratios...Even increasing the default refresh_pattern
to use 50% instead of 20% for 'guessed' expiry makes a noticeable
different in hit rates without a huge freshness drop.

If you still need what you're asking for, you'll need to do some coding.
     It isn't a trivial 'feature'.

chuckdutrow wrote:
> I have just added a satellite link to my network, I am using squid to
> cache http requests for my large network, I want to know if anyone
> knows
> how I can conf squid to use the satellite link to just constantly
> update my cache. I want this to work non stop, I dont want any of my
> users
> to ever hit a "stale" page. Also I currently have the cache updating
> via
> T1, I dont want the T1 to be used unless a new unseeded page is
> requested then once the initial page is seeded I want the satellite to
> constantly update it as well.
>
> Thanks for your help!!
>
> Chuck

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Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
Web caching appliances and support.
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