Reverse/Server-Side Proxy Caching for Windows?

frooyo asks: "I'm an currently looking for a good reverse proxy caching solution (server-side caching) for the Windows platform. This would be used as a transparent proxy between the corporate website and the outside world. Products that I have seen available include: Microsoft ISA server, Squid for NT and some others. I'm not completely opposed to using a non-windows platform for this type of solution, but I would prefer a Windows solution. I need a product that handles middle-large numbers of current users (10-30) with easy on one server. Additionally features such as caching pools and easy handling of FTP connections (since this will be used as a 'transparent' proxy) would be a much needed benefit."

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Re:Concurrent users

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Depends on what the "web server" is; it might be expensive SQL stuff, for example.

Funny I was thought the same thing, but that wasn't in the post at all. My original post was mostly about how weird of a question, if it even is a question, this posting was.

10-30 concurrent users I interpret as meaning 10-30 requests per second.

I don't. Most browsers by default have 4 connections to a server, and 30 users would have 120 requests per second max. Now at most only 30 would be dynamic requests, unless the pictures are generated dynamically.

To put it in perspective: 10 req/s is 864,000 req/day. 30 req/s is 2,592,000 req/day. If every page in your system is 30 KB in size, then 10 req/s is equivalent to a constant bandwidth usage of 300 KB/s.

He said users 10-30 users not requests, stop changing the posts meaning. 10 - 30 users on any site is nothing. Think those ten users hit refresh every goddamn second of their lives to fill 300 KB/sec of bandwidth?