Tuning Squid for enhanced caching

Although Squid performs quite well with default caching options, we can tune it to perform even better, by not caching the unwanted web objects and caching a few non-cacheable web documents. This will achieve higher bandwidth savings and reduced latency. Let's have a look at a few techniques that can be helpful.

Selective caching

There may be cases when we don't want to cache certain web documents or requests from clients. The directive cache is very helpful in such cases and is very easy to use.