[OGDev] URGENT Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] OG performance

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:15:32AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, David Cantrell wrote:
> > A good halfway house might be to use something like Squid to proxy all
> > incoming requests and to cache very common pages, such as the home page,
> > and serve them from the cache instead of hitting the OG code at all.
> > I'd be happy to help with configgering this.
> I'm not a caching expert by any stretch but I don't see how this would 
> work.  Squid would ask the web server if the content has changed, ...

I believe you can configure it to *always* serve stuff from the cache,
with timeouts before it goes back to the webserver.

-- 
David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive

   When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life
      -- Samuel Johnson