Re: [squid-users] squid + axel - netiquete idea

Bob, seems to me you are missing the point of network load balancing.
Someone with 10 modem lines should have their ISP performing load
balancing and redundancy at a IP level, not by manual load balancing.

This form of 'acceleration' dramatically increases the overhead for web
servers - i.e. checking databases, logging requests, checking access
control lists.

The act of transmission is only one part of the load involved in
handling a request, and these 'accelerators' -only- share that part of
the load, everything else is duplicated and wasted.

There is a place for swarming - but not in the client-server model of
HTTP. Things like gnutella, where swarming is a part of the protocol,
are an appropriate place.... and if someone with 10 modem lines wants to
use application level load balancing for static file downloads, gnutella
is probably an ideal tool - for them.

Rob

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