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Article: Hands on - Squid proxy cache - Caching in with Squid. Provide faster browsing to your users by installing Squid, a proxy cache.
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Byline: Jose Plana Mario.
While services such as email happily tick over in the background and no-one notices if a message takes half a minute or two minutes to arrive, when it comes to browsing, users will notice - and complain about - delays in loading web pages. Thankfully, improving the responsiveness of web browsing without interrupting other services over your net connection is not as complicated as you may think.
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