Squid Protected Proxy with Windows Server 2016

A Squid Protected Proxy is a feature-rich web server application providing both reverse proxy services and caching options for web-resources. This provides noticeably speeds web-resources up and allows reducing network load times when being utilized.

After Squid installation, web browsers can be configured to use it as a proxy HTTP server, allowing Squid to retain copies of the documents returned, which, on repeated requests for the same documents, can reduce access time as well as bandwidth consumption. This feature helps Internet Service Providers to increase their customer’s network performance and LANs that share an Internet connection.

A wide Squids usability range includes speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, caching web, DNS, and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, and aiding security by filtering traffic.

Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid provides limited support for several other protocols including Internet Gopher, SSL, TLS, and HTTPS. Squid does not support the SOCKS protocol, unlike Privoxy, with which Squid can be used in order to provide SOCKS support.

It may be used to block potentially illegal or malicious file downloads, remove annoying advertisements, prevent access to various categories of websites, and block resources with explicit content.

Squid Features:

• - Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process over IPv4 or IPv6.
• - Squid keeps metadata and especially hot objects cached in RAM
• - Caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups
• - Implements negative caching of failed requests.
• - Squid supports SSL, extensive access controls, and full request logging.
• - By using the lightweight Internet Cache Protocol, Squid caches can be arranged in a hierarchy or mesh for additional bandwidth savings.

Virtual Pulse presents you a fully pre-configured Windows Server 2016 with Squid Protected Proxy Image, specially cloud-hardened to perfectly work in Azure environments! This great solution will surely help you to increase your network productivity and security.

Disclaimer:Virtual Pulse does not offer commercial licenses of the products mentioned above. Squid Protected Proxy is a registered trademark of respective companies. No warranty of any kind, express or implied, is included with this software.