[squid-users] Setting Squid to work with a remote DB?

[His Shadow]

You could write a service that occasionally dumps user credentials
into some format, like json and have your external helpers download
it, parse it and use it as local cache. There will be delay, when
adding new users, but authentication would be very fast. Unless the
database is huge of course.

сб, 28 авг. 2021 г. в 21:59, roee klinger <roeeklinger60 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have multiple Squid servers installed in different data centers across different cloud providers, and they all need to authenticate users using a single database (MySQL) on a separate server, which is also on a different cloud provider on a different data center.
>
> I have already written an external authentication script that reads from MySQL and everything is working fine, however, I have some performance concerns, since the DB is located externally and in a different region of the world from the Squid server.
>
> I made some speed tests to see how long it takes to query the DB as Squid would:
>
> if the database is located on the same machine as Squid: 1.067-millisecond average query
>
> if the database is located on the same datacenter as Squid: 2.67-millisecond average query
>
> if the database is located on a different datacenter than Squid (different country as well): 38.9-millisecond average query
>
>
> Now I am wondering, is 36-millisecond average added query time a big deal when dealing with HTTP/S traffic? how significant is this added time to Squid and will performance get hurt drastically?
>
> I know there is some caching going on the Squid side, but I had to set the caching to really low values (around 15s), as per the requirement I was given.
>
> If I will have no other choice, I will simply replicate the DB table from the DB server to the Squid server, but I prefer not to do that, as it will require installing MySQL on all the Squid servers (or some other DB, but then I have to do replication from different DBs).
>
> Thanks.
>
> _______________________________________________
> squid-users mailing list
> squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
> http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users



-- 
HisShadow