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What about 'tinyproxy' ?
Are you sure this is happening because of squid? probably this is caused because of your vps speeds...
Does this allows authentication?
I tried linode and digitalocean....still pretty slow
how do you even ping through squid...?
99% if you have any reasonable CPU and RAM (256MB+) Squid will work fine, albeit it is not the most resource conserving.
I'm running an one with auth in 64mb openvz in NJ
that can push 30Mbps anytime
FYI I'm accessing from India
Squid is a caching proxy, which is probably not precisely what you want- especially if you are constantly I/O bound due to low specs (I ran one for years on a 64MB P90 class machine with a first gen SCSI drive, and it worked well enough). You might consider a SOCKS5 proxy, which is pretty much transparent by comparison, and can be set to require USER/PASS authentication.
Of course, OpenVPN is a much more common standard today which offers quite a bit more than just a simple HTTP proxy.
Can you define slow? What are you using it for and how? DO and Linode are pretty fast providers. I use squid in much slower ones, and I get all the speed that the vps itself is giving me to tested locations/servers.
I could not think a possible reason, squid slowing your connection, and it is one of the most lightest proxies out there. R U sure you are not doing anything weird with your configs?
Also, as @William said, squid cannot ping by default. To ping through squid you need special configuration. Did you do that? If yes, how?
One click OpenVPN installs
https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install
https://github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install
Nyr's script is marvelous. But, because OP is rather noobie, it may fit better a simpler solution for proxy as squid3. This is a very handy script by Mark Mearns for automatic installation and configuration of squid3 as elite proxy for debian-based distros:
http://pastebin.com/raw/QBBTzSjT
Thanks all! I will give all suggestions a try!