The Problem with Squid Support
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web used by ISPs and organizations of all sizes worldwide. You will also find it, unacknowledged, under-the-hood of many commercial 'black-box' products. For accelerating your users internet access while controlling access and making it secure Squid is a superb choice, especially in a mixed environment. However the case for using it is by no means cut and dried, even if it is only a few niggling worries that remain. With proprietary caching web servers there is a clear, and often big, proprietary company standing behind it, but with Squid apparently no such equivalent. Perhaps you don't have enough, or the right kinds of, expertise in your organisation. There may be legal, contractual or organisational requirements to have formal external support in place. It may be that you simply want reassurance if and when the worst happens. In any case you are looking for professional Squid support to cover your investment in Squid.
Why hasn't the problem been solved?
There is no single obvious organisation standing behind the Open Source Squid project. And even if there were companies that develop Squid are staffed by developers, and they do a great job at writing and packaging Open Source code into products. But you need support for the enterprise workloads you run in their real-world setting, not abstract issues of source code bug-fixing. In fact communities do as good or better at source code fixing, but cannot be pinned down to the Service Level Agreements you need.
In short, there is a mismatch between the kind of support you need, and the kind that is on offer.
Squid Support designed for the real world
You can get enterprise-savvy, real-world support, whichever platforms and operating systems that you use. Support that focuses on the practicalities of running Squid in your organization, as well as providing code fixes if you really need them.
What's different now?
The real trick is understanding that Open Source is a service, not a product, and that Squid is there to be used, not merely admired and developed as code. SiriUS has designed, built, supported and managed Squid systems since 1998, for Independent Schools to ISPs, Garages to Government. We understand Squid at the source code level yes, but more importantly we understand how it is used by organizations in the real world, and in it's various workloads. We have built and run thousands of machines responsible for billions and billions of pounds, euros and dollars of business value. We know how to support Squid in the way you need and want it to be supported.
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