<div dir="auto">Hello Paul,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sorry that my reply isn't actually directly related to you question or request for a solution, but are the regional nbn links business grade?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The reason I ask is that some providers may offer symmetrical (TC2) bandwidth along with the residential asymetrical grade and contended (TC4) bandwidth, which if QoS is done right, you can prioritise and mark traffic according to business need and put them on the appropriate traffic class which can give pretty good performance and potentially better user experience if turned correctly.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As for proxies, I think that squid is probably the way to go, but I've not done anything proxy-related for a long while now and not on anything other than squid.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also, given that most traffic these days is typically https, I don't see much benefit in a proxy as they cannot see inside an encrypted tunnel without SSL inspection... Not something I recommend at all unless there is a extremely compelling business case...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 9 Apr 2021, 14:37 Paul Del, <<a href="mailto:p@delfante.it">p@delfante.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I am looking for some advice with regards to a fast simple http forward proxy cache in open source.</div><div><div>Some background. Yes I have google'd to try and find benchmarks and installed a number of http and https forward proxies for testing on debian and ubuntu servers.</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>The requirement is to make the internet faster when clients use http and https on small networks 20 people or less using NBN FTTN 50Mb or less in regional areas.</div><div>Note I will install Pihole in conjunction with to cache DNS requests and block unwanted ads etc.</div><div>Note The requirements to cache and improve response times for web browsing http https. The most they download is a small amount of email.</div><div>I will be using a dedicated server so hardware and resources will not be an issue 4-8 cores 8-16GB ram 2-4 gige nics with SSD's</div><div><br></div><div>I would like something fast. I am a fan of Tinyproxy and Squid but have also used Privoxy and Polipo.</div><div><br></div><div>I leaning towards a solution with Tinyproxy and Privoxy with Pihole FTLDNS</div><div><br></div><div>I would appreciate any comments, suggestions, advice of any kind.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanking you Paul</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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