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

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 28.08.21 21:59, roee klinger wrote:
>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.

if you only use the auth db read-only, mysql replication and querying local
servers could help that.


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