From 908df202b9d220cdb44f5b34d342f53d04f49242 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Antoine=20Beaupr=C3=A9?= <anarcat@debian.org> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:28:48 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] fix cache page based on linus feedback --- tsa/howto/cache.mdwn | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tsa/howto/cache.mdwn b/tsa/howto/cache.mdwn index 6111082e..f3c9f5ea 100644 --- a/tsa/howto/cache.mdwn +++ b/tsa/howto/cache.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -A caching service is a set of services keeping a smaller cache of +A caching service is a set of reverse proxies keeping a smaller cache of content in memory to speed up access to resources on a slower backend -server. +web server. [[!toc levels=3]] @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ over or close to 90%. ## Traffic inspection A quick way to see how much traffic is flowing through the cache is to -fire up [slurm](https://screenshots.debian.net/package/slurm) on the public interface: +fire up [slurm](https://screenshots.debian.net/package/slurm) on the public interface of the caching server +(currently `cache01` and `cache-02`): slurm -i eth0 @@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ geographically distinct areas that run a webserver acting as a the [proxy module](https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html) for the <https://blog.torproject.org/> website (and eventually others, see [ticket #32462](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32462)). DNS for the site points to `cache.torproject.org`, an alias for the caching servers, -which are currently two: `cache01.torproject.org` [sic] and +which are currently two: `cache01.torproject.org` [[sic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic)] and `cache-02`. An HTTPS certificate for the site was issued through [[letsencrypt]]. Like the Nginx configuration, the certificate is deployed by Puppet in the `roles::cache` class. -- GitLab