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The introduction of BranchCache in Windows 7 is the next step to improving end user productivity in branch offices. BranchCache caches content from remote file and Web servers in the branch location so that users can more quickly access this information. The cache can be hosted centrally on a server in the branch location, or [...]

In this section we provide some suggested configurations along with guidelines for their use. We also address the topic of reasonable option setting.

3.1. Sample Configurations

3.1.1. A Caching-only Nameserver
The following sample configuration is appropriate for a caching-only name server for use by clients internal to a corporation. All queries from outside clients [...]

Internet Explorer caches web pages you visit and cookies coming from those pages. While designed to speed up browsing, if left unchecked the burgeoning folders can sometimes slow IE to a crawl or cause other unexpected behavior

From the Internet Explorer menu, click Tools |Internet Options. For Internet Explorer v7, follow steps 2-5 below. For Internet Explorer v6, [...]

With some minor modification to the squid.conf file we have defined above to run in httpd-accelerator mode, we can run Squid as a proxy-caching server. With a proxy cache server, all users in your corporate network use Squid to access the Internet. With this configuration, you can have complete control, and [...]

This section describes the installation of BIND 9.3.0 on a clean Fedora Core 2 system. This was the first Linux system we had used used since Redhat 7.x series and we found it significantly more windows like (this may be good or bad depending on your predilictions for these things).

This guide will assist you in setting up an rsnapshot backup server on your network. It will briefly explain setting up passwordless logins via SSH for rsync using SSH keys.

Squid is an excellent open source web caching proxy package, but it requires quite a lot of tuning to achieve the kind of performance seen in commercial proxies. This article presents several independently useful ideas for tuning a web caching system. If all of them are implemented, extremely high performance can be achieved from modest hardware. Further, this article will describe, for illustrative purposes

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process.

As a system administrator, part of your daily duties is to monitor systems for performance and to tune systems where necessary. While there are expensive software products and benchmarking tools that can hone a machine to optimum efficiency, there exist several basic tools within Linux® that permit the knowledgeable system administrator to gather information and use the valuable information to make decisions about where and when to tune a system.

If you have more than one box to update or install software with apt on, apt-proxy can save you a lot of time (and bandwidth). It runs on one box, and others are then set up to update through it. Updates are then stored on the apt-proxy box so that any others that also update [...]