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Originally Posted by pem
Hmm, you're an NTL Tech ? In that case could you please explain to me how this will screw up "load balance" (indeed, load balance of what ?).
IMO it would not make most peoples browsing any slower [or faster] - but many would notice that they no longer get zero response (or stale pages) because the damn things don't work properly. Still - I'm willing to change my view if you can prove otherwise. 
I would not attach much significance to the fact that you haven't taken a "proxy related" call in ages - like many people I haven't made one in ages but this doesn't alter the fact that they still fail regularly. Those who know enough to blame them also know how to change them.
Proxy servers are becoming more and more of a waste of time anyway as more and more sites are becoming dynamic rather than static so the proxy is still having to go and get the updated page everytime (except that NTL's often don't resulting in errors) - they are now just becoming itermediate, unneccessary, failure prone, repeaters. |
Well for a start when the fastest Proxy servers in the country start to get unbalanced because every1 is using them constantly the people in the area using them transparently will notice a decrease in service (thought you would have got that one Pem). Not really load balance as such I shall have to agree. The time it will take for the proxy servers to respond to requested urls will get slower and slower and then finaly die.
There are other options around the problems, for instance nthw.com had different meta rules and seemed to get chached allot less than nthw.co.uk