How often do you use SQUID in an organization?

Question

linux

Good evening, I would like to conduct a short survey on how often you use Squid in organizations and for what purposes, or tell us about analogues.
Thank you for your attention!

Answer 1

Good evening, I mainly use 5-7 PCs for a small number of users. Used to collect statistics of visited sites and save reports via sarg.

Answer 2

Squid is a handy thing as a proxy for providing access to the Internet, if you don't want to give NAT to everyone.
It's a great thing to restrict access, since squid can be flexibly configured where you can and where you can't.
It is used where there are many users who need to be limited.

Answer 3

Previously, when the Internet was expensive and payment was based on traffic, it had to be used everywhere, because it was necessary to clearly see where the money was going, and reduce the amount of traffic by caching.
Now the Internet is usually paid for by the channel width, and not by traffic, there is no need to monitor who goes where and how much they spend.
Therefore, proxy servers are not used, everything is decided with the help of routing, QoS and shaping.

Answer 4

I used it at my last job as a proxy. Counted traffic, blocked sites, cut quickly. ASA 5512 wrapped all WCCP traffic on the squid.

Answer 5

Option 1 saving and accounting for traffic - exactly as described above by Artem and is now practically not relevant
Option 2 anonymous proxy to hide data about browser OS, etc., one squid is no longer sufficient for anonymization but can be useful as part of an anonymization complex.

Answer 6

I used to meet a lot where, now it seems to me that he has gone a lot.
There are solutions for the enterprise on Windows, a lot of beautiful solutions have appeared and on Linux routers they are not at all expensive, so as not to fool yourself with a squid
Well, the most important problem was solved, the traffic became free and the savings are not so obvious.

Answer 7

Recently I set up a squid to work with kerberos - it works as it should - 600 computers, I still don’t understand how much RAM I have given so far 4 gigabytes of RAM, I will have to monitor it with a torus. I chose it purely for content filtering, I removed the cache altogether - since the caching server is no longer relevant, I don’t cut the speed either. I just set up a virtual machine on the server and turned off all nttr traffic to this server without any gateways

Answer 8

Description from last work:
http://wiki.rsu.edu.ru/wiki/Configuring_proxy-server
Historically, it has been standing since dialup times. Now there is a cache in RAM and user authorization in AD. It still works.
~2000 people. 200 Mbps channel.