Alain Fontaine’s Jabberbox

In one of my earlier posts, I explained how I setup Squid to accelerate a remote photo serving appliance that is connected to the Internet over a slow 512Kbit/s ADSL line. I am now using the same setup to accelerate my Wordpress blog. The results are quite stunning. Read on to find out more and see some performance results…

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Since a couple of weeks I own a Synology Diskstation DS108j with a 500GB disk that I use as a small fileserver and photoserver at home. The device has many more features, like music streaming and blogging, and can even operate as a fully-fledged LAMP server using the latest versions of PHP and MySQL if you want. I personally use it for backups of my PC and MacBook, and mainly to store the photos I shoot with my Sony Alpha 350 DSLR camera.

As I want to share these photos with family and friends, but only have 512 Kbit/s upstream bandwidth with my ADSL line, browsing the photos remotely was sluggish, until I found a nice solution: install a reverse caching proxy using Squid.

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