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Re: Proxies &NetVision



On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:

> |2)The cache can also serve as a HTTP Accelerator - it can serve YOUR OWN
> |site's pages 60 times faster than your HTTPD server, while caching "Hot"
> |objects (most accessed) in memory. Highly configurable (Meaning also it can
> |be a pain to get it fine-tuned).
> 
> Have you compared it to the Apache server? (don't remember the apache provides
> proxy services, but as an HTTPD).

the Apache is a souped-up NCSA (a patchy server, as they say), and has no 
proxying, certainly no caching services.


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