7 years 4 months ago
I've had a varnish installation protecting http://www.fairvote.ca -- a wordpress site hosted at webhosting canada (whc.ca) -- for about a year. Last Friday in the evening, it started spitting out 503 errors, for no obvious reason. I spent a few hours yesterday in vain trying to get the hosts to tell me what, if anything might have changed at their end.
What I eventually figured out is that they
Alan Dixon
7 years 6 months ago
Four and half years ago, I wrote a blog post about Varnish, a 'front-end proxy' for webservers. My best description of it then was as a protective bubble, analogous to how it's namesake is used to protect furniture. I've been using it happily ever since.
But last week, I got to really put Varnish through a test when the picture here, posted by Fair Vote Canada (one of my clients), went viral
Alan Dixon
10 years 1 month ago
The 4.3 version of CiviCRM that first came out in April 2013 addresses a key problem with CiviCRM for large organizations: namely, accounting integration.
So what exactly does that mean, and how does it work? Since I'm working on a big migration to CiviCRM, and the client has "accounting integration" needs, I've been diving in and trying to understand the nitty gritty. Since I started, 4.4 is
Alan Dixon