[squid-users] Centralized Squid - design and implementation

[Amos Jeffries]

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On 18/11/2014 12:39 a.m., Carlos Defoe wrote:
> Use a load balancer. HAproxy will do the trick, if you don't want
> to spend some money on a professional load balancer like F5
> big-ip.

Or even, taddah ... Squid!

see cache_peer for the many load balancing algorithms available.

> 
> Don't drop the use of wpad. You can send the balancer name (eg. 
> proxy.your.domain) as a default for every client, and send the
> names of the proxy nodes as a failover.

But, but, WPAD *is* the first layer of load balancing.
Kinkie already posted the way to do clean loadbalancing with failover
between proxies. Without any need for a bottlneck at a balancer server
or IP.

Amos

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