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Squid

AvantezeAvanteze Member
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I tried making a proxy using squid but the speeds and ping are terrible. Any other alternatives I could use?

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  • tronyxtronyx Member

    What about 'tinyproxy' ?

  • jvnadrjvnadr Member

    Avanteze said: but the speeds and ping are terrible

    Are you sure this is happening because of squid? probably this is caused because of your vps speeds...

  • AvantezeAvanteze Member

    @tronyx said:
    What about 'tinyproxy' ?

    Does this allows authentication?

  • AvantezeAvanteze Member

    @jvnadr said:

    Avanteze said: but the speeds and ping are terrible

    Are you sure this is happening because of squid? probably this is caused because of your vps speeds...

    I tried linode and digitalocean....still pretty slow

  • WilliamWilliam Member

    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.

  • simonindiasimonindia Member

    I'm running an one with auth in 64mb openvz in NJ

    that can push 30Mbps anytime

    FYI I'm accessing from India

  • WSSWSS Member

    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.

  • WSSWSS Member

    Of course, OpenVPN is a much more common standard today which offers quite a bit more than just a simple HTTP proxy. :)

  • jvnadrjvnadr Member
    edited February 2017

    Avanteze said: I tried linode and digitalocean....still pretty slow

    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?

  • doughmanesdoughmanes Member

    One click OpenVPN installs

    https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

    https://github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install

  • jvnadrjvnadr Member

    doughmanes said: https://github.com/Nyr/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

  • AvantezeAvanteze Member

    Thanks all! I will give all suggestions a try!

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