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Caching

Caching

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Caching

- [Voiceover] Caching is a great idea, it's kind of across the board a nifty thing that you can enable on your network, right? You may be familiar with caching servers from OS X server. That's a very popular thing to put out there now because it holds iOS and Mac OS software downloads, or personal iCloud data so that the devices on your network don't have to re-download those updates and that personal iCloud data from servers on the internet once they've already been downloaded once. This is really helpful whenever you've got a lot of those devices because it saves bandwidth. You know another kind of caching server is known as a proxy server. The way that works is when a client system goes to a website through the proxy server the images and movies and data that comprises the webpage they've requested comes through the proxy server but the proxy server holds onto all that stuff locally and just in case someone else goes to the same webpage and they need to reload that same data proxy…

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