I am doing some sourcing and have just realized that I am having trouble googling out any meaningful results on Hardware based HTTP Proxy Servers. It got me thinking whether there are any good Hardware based Proxy Servers for Office and/or Home use.
My Questions is which are the known good Hardware Based HTTP Proxy Servers in production today and secondly what are the pros and cons of using a Hardware based HTTP Proxy Server as opposed to a Software Based HTTP Proxy?
I assume that when you say "hardware-based" proxy server you're talking about some kind of network appliance. I'd wonder first if the appliance is just running Apache httpd on BSD or Linux anyway, so I wonder if there would be any real difference.
There is no such thing as a "Hardware based Proxy Servers". They are all hardware and software based
Mostly the ones marketed as "Hardware based Proxy Servers" are just low end x86 computers running some variant of Linux
You therefore tend to pay a premium for the pretty red paint job :-)
I'm not aware of a hardware-based web proxy. Even if they do exist, I can't see why one would prefer such a setup over Squid.