Setting up Squid on FreeBSD (howto)

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Gerard

Squid is a caching proxy and conserving badwidth application for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. With Squid, you can reduce the network/internet traffic by 30% or more from normal usage (without squid) and enhance respone time.

Step-by-step instructions on how to install Squid on FreeBSD can be found here.


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One Response to Setting up Squid on FreeBSD (howto)

  1. hate says:
    August 22, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    if you need a server accelerator i recommend to use varnish or nginx

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