Anilrgowda

Question
I have a website (windows IIS) that is very busy and I wanted to setup an SQUID Reverse proxy to offload some of the traffic. I wanted to know what are the best practices, and how to setup it up on a Linux (CentOS)?
Soln
My preference is for Apache, but Squid is still OK if you don't have complex rules as described in my previous posts. Additionally, squid will probably be a bit better if the main thing you want to use it for is a reverse proxy cache, although the mod_cache Apache module was vastly improved in Apache 2.2

For info on Reverse Proxy Apache tutorial, see:

http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3290851

Note that this is for Apache 2.0. There are some improvements/enhancements in Apache 2.2, but it all depends on your exact requirements. If you have just a very straight forward environment, then the details in this tutorial will be just fine.