Fastream IQ Proxy Server is an HTTP firewall solution complete with cache. The software includes two modules including a reverse proxy and a content proxy. There are separate licenses for each module. A license for the content proxy costs $59 while a license for reverse proxy costs $85 for home users and $245 for commercial users. Anyone who purchases the reverse proxy can also take advantage of the content proxy for no extra cost. One license can be purchased per computer. You can find out more about the various licensing packages at http://www.iqproxyserver.com/ .

IQ Proxy Server will accelerate and secure all of the traffic between your firewall and web server using particularly high performance SSL encryption. GZip compression and DISK/RAM caching are also supported. The IQ Proxy Server load-balancer is also one of the most feature-rich and scalable of such solutions currently on the market. The HTTP load-balancer also comes with a failover which means that, if a web server stops responding, the request will be rerouted to another server. If all web servers go down, there remains the option of serving a file from the cache. For maximum security, SSL-offloading can also be carried out with 256-bit AES security. Hardware SSL acceleration is also supported. This allows you to use more CPU cycles for scripts since the SSL task is taken off your web servers. An ultra-fast RAM/DISK cache is also supported, using only two CPU cores. Web page sizes can also be compressed for a further performance enhancement. With GZip compression, page sizes can be compressed by as much as 90%. Your site will be protected using firewalls and more bandwidth will be saved for your visitors.

The Fastream IQ Proxy Server is also one of the fastest in the entire industry and it used by many customers all over the world, including major banking firms based in Asia. IQ Proxy Sever also provides a country firewall which allows administrators to limit client access depending on the country they are accessing your sites from.

The forward and reverse proxy server is one of the most affordable solutions, yet it remains packed full of useful features. Combined with an easy-to-use interface, it also supplies a web site publishing wizard for your convenience. There is also extremely reliable product support available, unlike some of the other similar solutions. Bugs which are reported in the software are typically fixed within 48 hours.

IQ Proxy Server is ideal for many sorts of companies including web hosting providers, ISPs and any other business which runs web servers. A reverse proxy is more essential than ever for any serious web site administrators. While there are also free alternatives to IQ Proxy Server, these alternatives do not provide any support and end up costing a great deal to maintain, making them somewhat of a false economy. IQ Proxy Server is also much cheaper than most of the paid competitors such as Microsoft TMG which can cost as much as $6000 per CPU.

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Kyle McDonald runs a web hosting company and an Internet service provider. His business uses the reverse proxy server to optimize performance and improve security for his networks.

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