Squid is a high performance proxy server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects developed for Unix/Linux environments and now also available for Windows.

Some Squid functionality:

• proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs
• proxying for SSL
• cache hierarchies
• ICP, HTCP, CARP, Cache Digests
• transparent caching
• WCCPv1 and v2
• extensive access control rules
• Windows transparent authentication based on NTLMv1/v2 and Kerberos
• HTTP server acceleration
• SNMP monitoring
• caching of DNS lookups

Squid is a "free open-source software" (Free Software) result of many contributions by unpaid (and paid) volunteers licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

The Acme Consulting staff actively contributes to the Squid project by different ways:

• Guido Serassio is one of the members of the Squid Developers Core Team
• sponsorship of the Squid Windows port project
• maintenance and bugfixing of Squid 2.6.STABLE
• hosting of the first official italian mirror of the www.squid-cache.org web site
• hosting of a official mirror of the Italian Squid Documentation Project "Squid proxy server: Oltre le FAQ"

Acme Consulting offers a wide range of Squid services and products:

• Design of new implementations
• Analysis and deployment of customized solutions
• Installation and optimization
• Deployment of Squid based content filtering solutions
• Support and maintenance
• Implementation of monitoring and log analysis tools
• Squid training
• Support and maintenance for squidGuard on Windows (certified packages only)

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