New to servers, been hovering on http://highscalability.com/ for some days. Most of the architectures there show that people are using squid for proxy. Apache also provided mod_proxy which to a noob eye seems pretty much the same. Is there a perticular reason to opt for squid instead of mod_proxy?
Thanks
it's the same, but with a lot better suited architecture.
since you don't run applications on Squid, all code is reviewed with the same goal: serve from cache, or get out of the way.
also, it's event-driven, and single-threaded; giving the best performance / resource utilization ratios.
of course, there's also Varnish and Nginx.... both claim to be even better (i'm really impressed by Nginx)
