Squid Easy Сaching Proxy Server on Ubuntu Minimal

This is an extremely flexible and customizable proxy server. You can use it to speed up data transfers in a network of computers that require frequent updates of some kind.

The Squid’s Easy Сaching distinguishing feature is the possibility of caching resources requested from the web to disk in order to speed up future requests of those objects either by the same client or others.

Tidal Media Inc. presents Squid Proxy Server that has been optimized for speed and high performance. The Image has been tested on readiness for performing in Azure Environments, fully pre-configured, and ready-to-run.

Squid Easy Сaching Proxy Features:

• Set ACL for which networks have access to internet
• Block/Allow access to certain websites
• Block/Allow Content Based on MIME Types (e.g image, text, mpeg)
• Set time in which users can access the internet at certain times in the day
• Cache frequently accessed websites, cache files/media
• Hide users internal IP Addresses
• Load balance with other Squid proxies
• Clustering
• Traffic Interception with WCCP
• Set authentication to get users to Authenticate (LDAP, Active Directory,RADIUS, POP3, DB, etc)
• Allow/Block IM (Instant Messaging)
• Block coin-mining scripts from using CPU/memory on users browsers. A new modern trend.
• Adaptation protocol (C-ICAP / eCAP)
• Caching Dynamic Content
• Fully Transparent Interception with Squid-2, TPROXYv2 and WCCP
• Configuring multiple interception ports using WCCPv2
• WCCP2 and NAT on a private internal network
• PHP Redirectors
• SMP Carp Cluster
• Torrent filtering
• Webwasher integration - prevent downloading of virus-infected files or to filter out adult content

To summarize, it could be said - this is an extremely flexible and customizable proxy server. You can use it to speed up data transfers in a network of computers that require frequent updates of some kind.