[isp-caching] Re: Compressing Caching server - Propel / Sliptstream

[Blaine Fleming <groups@...>]

I haven't seen any mention of free, open-source software yet so I thought I 
would mention RabbIT Web Proxy.  It was created in Java and I have run it 
as a production server on *NIX and Windows boxen.  Free, open-source, cross 
platform and overall pretty clean.  The link for it is:

http://www.khelekore.org/rabbit/

I decided early in the process that the headaches of caching were not worth 
it.  Since there was more than enough available upstream bandwidth, I 
turned off the caching engine and just used the compression engine.  Grabs 
a new copy of a site with every query and sends back a compressed version 
to the client.  Beautiful.

--Blaine


At 12:02 PM 3/30/2004, you wrote:
> Hello.  I know many of you guys are still Dial-up providers,
> and you are the most knowledgeable (and handsome!)
> group of guys I know, so I thought I'd ask my question
> here.  :-)  I hope no one from the WISP-Equipment list
> reads this, because I used pretty much the same line
> to suck up to those guys a second ago!  :-)
>
> I'm looking for dial-up acceleration software, something
> like Propel or Slipstream.  We've used a trial of Miliki
> iNET accelerator from Quikcat.com, and are very pleased
> with the difference it makes.  It basically takes graphics
> that are in web pages, and re-compresses them in a lossy
> way to reduce their size greatly.  This makes them a but
> poorer quality, but also makes them 1/4 the size and 4 times
> faster in some cases. Of course it does not speed up MP3
> download or anything else, but it does dramatically speed
> up browsing.  The issue is these are all server / client based
> and the servers in these cases are theirs - and our clients
> would have to pay monthly subscriptions to Propel or Miliki.
> I'm looking for a server that I can download and run here,
> something Open Source or something we can purchase
> for a reasonable amount of money for a small dialup ISP.
>
> I would have thought that there would be a Squid component
> that would do this, or some other caching proxy server that
> would compress the data before it handed it back out, but
> nothing I can find seems to do it.
>
> So, any help would be appreciated.  From the results we've
> seen with miliki, it's well worth doing this for both dialup and
> for our wireless customers.  Even the less aggressive speed
> settings are very noticeable and would save lots of bandwidth,
> yet have very little loss in visual quality.  Any help or comments
> would be appreciated.
>
> - Todd Chamberlain



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