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Thanks for the awesome tutorials, being able to set up OpenVPN hassle-free totally brought me here. Could you possibly throw up a Squid tutorial? Google isn't extremely helpful, took me a lot of guessing to get it working with custom ports on another service.

Hello !

I wasn't thinking to put up a squid tutorial because I do not understand why this would be a better VPN and why is needed. Something like Dante or Polipo probably would have been better, eventually a Tor relay to use as an entry point.
I will probably put up a tutorial which will contain proxy software of some kind. Could add squid too, however, I would like to read some arguments why this is a preferred proxy method for some people.
For now I am in vacation on a bad connection, next week will continue the series.

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Is squid similar to varnish?

They are similar based on the fact that both can do caching. Squid, however, can do caching as a second job, his main job is to be a proxy.

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More in general there are two family of proxies:

- Classic forward proxy, which is the proxy we use to browse the internet using the proxy ip. Squid and polipo are two examples.
- Reverse proxy, which are used to distribute and balance contents versus other backend. Haproxy, pen, varnish and nginx are some examples.

Both forward and reverse can have caching capabilities.

Just if the tutorial still neded, here is one of my post about creating Squid 2.7 for Proxy browsing in a Debian VPS :

http://www.erawanarifnugroho.com/2011/1 ... n-vps.html

Thanks Erawan, was about to write one since my vacation ends today. Do you mind if I adapt it for here quoting the source ?

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Sure, it's for public tutorial

Thanks, I will do tonight if I have time

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Squid tutorial online.
Thanks again Erawan

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