A newbie question

Albertob · Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:06 am

I'd like to try my hand at MT to experiment a bit. Here is what I want to accomplish.

I'd like to periodically (daily) cache a bunch of sites to share among neighbors but I'd like to stop them from further surfing.

Since I want to experiment a bit before investing further, I'll be using an old PC (Pentium 166, 128MB), using MT on a Flash-IDE and having a second harddrive for caching purposes. I see no more than 10-15 users log at any time, for starters anyway.

So here are my questions...

Would the old PC (with the mentioned specs) suffide?

Can I have MT periodically cache the "listed" sites on its own without further intervention, preferable at pre-programmed time (say late at night)?

Thanks a bunch for helping out this newbie...

Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:17 am

i don't think that this can be done at all. i mean - what does it mean `a site`? the cache stores files, not sites. a site consists of many files - what files would you like to cache? you need a program like teleport pro to store whole sites for offline browsing. RouterOS can't do this.

Albertob · Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:15 pm

i don't think that this can be done at all. i mean - what does it mean `a site`? the cache stores files, not sites. a site consists of many files - what files would you like to cache? you need a program like teleport pro to store whole sites for offline browsing. RouterOS can't do this.

I want to share with my neighbors access to a few sites (mainly news) without having them hog on my bandwidth... It will only be a few urls and for a few number of users.

It's just an idea that I want to try out; if successful, I would go further with non-restricted access to a larger base.

Thanks for the response, Alberto

Albertob · Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:18 am

Since I haven't gotten a different response from Normis', I'll ask a different question in the hope of getting a response that help my quest.

Does anyone have a recomendation for an easier user friendly Cache-Proxy Server to support the sharing of access to neighbors without commiting to much of my bandwidth?

Thanks in advance

rikerconsulting · Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:00 am

Just as a side note, you generally don't want to be doing too much caching on flash drives.

~ Jason

Albertob · Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:50 am

Actually, I'd be catching on the second harddrive which would be a regular harddrive, not a flash drive.

Thanks for the recomendation anyway.

Any suggestion on an inexpensive user-friendly cache-proxy server to complement MT?