[Server-devel] Everex gpc mini - an option for the XS?

[Sameer Verma]

Ivan Krstić wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> So, it looks like tinyproxy is a non-caching proxy :-)
>> There is another project that looks promising: Varnish.
>
> No. Varnish is a reverse proxy, or HTTP accelerator. 

I'd imagine Varnish would help with speeding things up on the Moodle
side. Is this correct?

> We need an actual caching proxy, not just something with 'proxy' in
> the name/description.
>
Has anyone looked at Polipo (Polipo is a small and fast caching web proxy)?
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/

Sameer