What is Squid?

Squid is a proxy-server that caches internet data. Squid supports the HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. Using Squid, you can improve the server response time by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. It improves performance without the need for greater bandwidth. Squid is generally used as a server accelerator.

You can configure Squid to act as a caching HTTP accelerator. It improves the server performance, network performance, and security as Squid overcomes disadvantages related with performance. For example, when the original web server and the original network might be slow and prone to attacks, you can use Squid to serve traffic requests.

Squid is suited for any operating system including Digital UNIX, IRIX, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and even OS/2. You can also use it on Windows platform.