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Apache in production without squid

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I would like to know how many concurrent connections you recommend to use with apache without having a squid in place.
We have approx 600 concurrent connections on our site and run currently with squid, but think about removing squid from the network. Is this a good idea ?

posted Oct 14, 2013 by Amit Parthsarthi

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If your apache installation is sufficiently well tuned and has enough resources (chiefly RAM) then it should be fine.

For a public example, see http://httpd.apache.org/server-status presently indicating over 800 slots.

answer Oct 14, 2013 by Dewang Chaudhary
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