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25Dec/090

Installing and configuring Squid proxy server

Squid is a caching proxy supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

1. Install the Squid package

apt-get install squid

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21Dec/090

Simple load balancing using Pound

The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.

1. Install the pound package

apt-get install pound

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