Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and
reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access
controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available
operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.
PS: Varnish 顺便提一下这个东西
Varnish是一款高性能的开源HTTP加速器,挪威最大的在线报纸 Verdens Gang 使用3台Varnish代替了原来的12台Squid,性能比以前更好。
Varnish 的作者Poul-Henning
Kamp是FreeBSD的内核开发者之一,他认为现在的计算机比起1975年已经复杂许多。在1975年时,储存媒介只有两种:内存与硬盘。但现在计算
机系统的内存除了主存外,还包括了CPU内的L1、L2,甚至有L3快取。硬盘上也有自己的快取装置,因此Squid
Cache自行处理物件替换的架构不可能得知这些情况而做到最佳化,但操作系统可以得知这些情况,所以这部份的工作应该交给操作系统处理,这就是
Varnish cache设计架构。
可以参考这个网站的一些文章: http://www.lamppr.com/
4 lighttpd http://www.lighttpd.net/
Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility -- all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty
)
which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is
designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small
memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of
the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth,
Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the
perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And
best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license
.