ICM's Web Caching Survey
If you consider any questions to be sensitive or difficult to answer, feel free to skip them.
Section 1 - General questions
1.1 Primary contact information
First name:
Last name:
Title:
Institution:
E-mail:
Street Address:
City:
Postal code:
Country:
1.2 Your hosting institution is a:
College/high school
University/research institute
Governmental institution
Internet service provider
Other commercial
Other
1.3 What is the URL of your service ?
1.4 Would you like your service to be added to a public list of caches for your region ?
Yes
No
1.5 Is any online information concerning your service available ?
No
Yes, its URL is:
1.6 What domains do you serve ?
1.7 For how long have you been running your service ?
1.8 As a result of this survey, it may be advisable for certain cache maintainers to make some changes in the peering relationships with other cache services in order to participate in the larger European-wide hierarchy.
Would you be willing/able to participate with your cache in a European hierarchy if suggested by the European caching task force ?
Yes
No
Probably
Don't know
1.9 For those interested in improving the caching infrastructure in Europe TERENA operates the caching task force mailing list, tf-cache@terena.nl.
Would you like to be added to this list ?
Yes
No
Section 2 - Technical issues
2.1 What caching software are you currently using ?
CERN/W3C
Harvest 1.4 and below
Harvest 2.0 and better
Squid
Netscape Proxy Server
other, please specify:
Please indicate the version of your software:
2.2 What type of network objects do you cache ?
HTTP objects
FTP objects
Gopher objects
Other objects, please specify:
2.3 Do you run your service on a dedicated machine(s) ?
Yes
No
2.4 What is the organization of your cache ?
a single server
a cluster of caches
a hierarchy of caches under single administration
other, please specify:
2.5 Please describe the hardware of your cache
Vendor:
Type:
Operating system:
Memory (available for your cache):
Disk space (available for your cache):
2.6 Do you have plans to upgrade the hardware of your server(s) within the next 12 months ?
Yes, to:
No
2.7 Please describe the Internet connection(s) of your location:
Connection #1
Connection #2
Connection #3
Bandwidth:
Connected to:
Internet provider:
2.8 Do you plan to upgrade your Internet connectivity within next 12 months ?
Yes, to:
No
Section 3 - Access policies
3.1 Who is allowed to connect to your service ?
Everyone, no access control
Access is limited to domains (please specify):
Access is limited to specific machines
Access is granted to individual users
Other type of access control (please describe):
3.2 Is your service a part of a hierarchical caching system ?
No
Local hierarchy (organization-wide)
National
International (eg. you have some child and some parent caches abroad)
3.3 Please list all caches you peer with (for each single parent and neighbour add a list of domains you are resolving through it)
Parents:
Neighbours:
Children:
3.4 Do you charge for using your cache ?
Yes
No
Depends, please explain:
Considered in the future
3.5 Can users at you site bypass your proxy?
Yes
No
3.6 Please describe any aspects of your cache configuration which are not covered by the previous questions, and can be of interest to other cache administrators:
Section 4 - Performance issues
4.1 How would you evaluate the performance of your caching service ?
4.2 Approximately, how many users are accessing your service ?
4.3 What is the peak load of your cache ?
requests/hour:
MB served/hour:
4.4 What is the average load of your cache ?
requests/hour:
MB served/hour:
4.5 What hit rate are you experiencing (percent) ?
on HTTP objects:
on FTP objects:
on Gopher objects:
on other objects (please specify):
September 6th, 1996,
mkur