[squid-users] High-Availability in Squid

[Ashish Mukherjee]

Why should Squid take care of HA though? Isn't it the responsibility of the
Website to ensure its uptime? Even if used as a reverse proxy, Apache may
do a better job at this, since one can do more sophisticated configurations
with mod_proxy.

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 3:56 AM, Kinkie <gkinkie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>   please see http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/MonitorUrl.
> It's available in squid 2.6 , and is one of the last few features who
> haven't yet made it to Squid 3.X. If anyone is interested, code and
> sponsorships are always welcome :)
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Imaginovskiy <mo at stellarise.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Bit of a strange one but I'm wondering if it's possible to have squid
>> redirect a site to a secondary backend server if the primary is down. Have
>> been looking into this but haven't seen much similar to this. Currently I
>> have my setup along the lines of this;
>>
>> Client -> Squid -> Backend1
>>
>> but in the event that Backend1 is down, the following should be done;
>>
>> Client -> Squid -> Backend2
>>
>> Is squid capable of monitoring connections to peer or redirecting based on
>> an ACL looking for some HTTP error code?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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