It is well known fact that nowadays more and more ISPs in the world use Ubuntu driven servers as proxies, domain name servers, routers etc. Squid is one the major open source web caching proxy software for Ubuntu and Linux as a whole. Term ‘caching‘ means a way to store Internet objects on locally deployed proxy server for sake of reducing bandwidth consumption and access time to popular web content. You may read more about squid caching software at wikipedia or squid-cache.org.
Youtube videos can also be cached and squid web caching proxy under Ubuntu is reasonable choice for this purpose. It’s common practice when one user downloads some very popular youtube video and then shares its URL to other users withing the same organization. Caching of such youtube video using squid will definitely save Internet connection bandwidth and traffic as every time users download that video it will be fetched from local web cache rather than from youtube servers.
