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    • K
      kejianshi
      last edited by

      I have this feeling that you are abit new to pfsense and perhaps to all of this.

      You have quite a bit of machine there that is far more capable that what pfsense will require for the task.

      I think you should take that 1 computer and use it for not only for pfsense but for many servers.

      I'd hate to see good money go to waste.  You can get alot out of it.

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        heirkeyso
        last edited by

        Honestly. Yes im new to pfsense.

        One of my officemate suggesting to use a asus router as a replacement of the ofsense but in my own opinion i'm much more comfortable to the pfsense.

        What do you suggest? As of now my option is to reformat the pc and install again the pfsense.

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        • KOMK
          KOM
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          Squid is almost useless these days for caching.  More often it's used as a base for URL filtering with SquidGuard.  Even with dynamic content settings, my cache hit rate never seems to be more than 5-7%.  It's hardly worth it.

          I think your cache is definitely too big.

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            heirkeyso
            last edited by

            Do you have a suggestion that can replace squid and squidguard?

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            • KOMK
              KOM
              last edited by

              Not really.  I use them for URL filtering.  I don't really care about the caching part since we have a fast fibre linkand tons of bandwidth.

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                kejianshi
                last edited by

                What KOM is saying is that there is nothing wrong with squid as part of squidguard.  Just make your cache smaller.  Alot smaller.  Not more than about 25GB.  Honestly it doesn't even need to be that big.

                Pfsense will work very well for you and can do so usually with a relatively small SSD.  Disk speed is your friend.

                But yeah.  You could run pfsense on 2 cores for your needs.

                I do suggest pfsense though.  Its much nicer and feature rich than pretty much everything else.

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