G2

Mario L.

IT Specilist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/24/2019

"Proxy and cache manager, squid is waiting for you"

4/5

What do you like best about Squid?

It serves as a cache server so concurrent connections to websites will be much faster to the perception of users, because having stored the data that do not change on the web, the proxy does not consult these elements again and delivers to the user what is stored on your hard drive, thus decreasing your consumption of bandwidth to the Internet. Also, if what you need is to see which are the sites in which your users browse, you can generate reports and see data such as who downloaded more information, the most visited pages, among others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Squid?

Sometimes it has errors on sites, for example, if there is a page where my users need to connect to download a file with personal information, when a second user tries to connect to this site and download a file with a similar structure, but with their data, this sometimes brings the information of the first user, becoming a real nuisance to users and service administrators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Squid:

The pages of financial institutions generally do not allow access when they detect that the connection comes from a proxy, so it is best to bypass the requests that come or go to the websites of financial institutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Squid solving and how is that benefiting you?

To have a structure that allows me to manage Internet resources and how they are used by users, to generate reports of what each user is consuming and see how they can impact the business, both positively and negatively. Apart from that, with the cache, we optimize the use of the Internet by considerably reducing the requests made to a server each time a user tries to access a portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.