With the arrival of a new disk that brings the proxy cache up to 6GB, the UO campus web proxy server, proxy.uoregon.edu, is better able than ever to serve an increased number of users.

Proxy servers speed up access to web-based resources by locally storing copies of frequently-accessed web sites. After a web page is first viewed, users donüt have to wait for it to load from a very remote or slow web server. Instead, the web page is served from the local proxy cache to all users who request that page, resulting in much faster page views.

For more information on proxy server enhancements, see http://proxy.uoregon.edu