[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Pound - reverse proxy and load balancer - v1.0

[Toby Dickenson]

On Thursday 31 October 2002 4:43 pm, Eron Lloyd wrote:

> Awesome! This seems like a great app...Squid seems like a bear to setup=
 for
> proxy handling, yet this is designed much simpler (and efficient!). Doe=
s
> Squid provide much more than Pound (besides caching and now ESI)?=20

caching is the major difference. Squid also has extensive logging and=20
real-time operational statistics.

> When does
> it make sense to use Squid vs. Pound?=20

If you need caching.

> I imagine Pound would be more
> appropriate on a faster pipe, where caching isn't as big an issue...

No. In this configuration squid's caching helps reduce load on your backe=
nd=20
zope servers, and reduce request latency. It is independant of pipe.