How not to check if Varnish is working.
Our new Varnish clients who choose to install everything themselves want a way to verify if it's working - and often fall in the same trap: they use the isvarnishworking.com website which has good SEO...
View ArticleVarnish for Joomla! 3.4
The latest Varnish Cache package for Joomla! v1.3.5 is available. Now you can accelerate Joomla CMS version 3.4.Existing clients can contact us to get the new version for free.If you're running a high...
View ArticleUpgrade your Varnish!
Surprisingly, Varnish Software announced that they will not update Varnish 3.0 and that users need to upgrade to 4.0 as soon as possible. This is not an expected decision, it has been stated more than...
View ArticleApache mod_status page mangled by mod_rewrite?
Quicktip: if a complicated mod_rewrite setup is making your /server-status inaccessible, just paste the following two lines above all the rewrite rules:RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}...
View ArticleVarnish for Joomla maintenance release
It seems that with Joomla! 3.4.3, our patch for Varnish support could not be applied, so we made a maintenance release - as usually, available for free for the existing clients. There are no new...
View ArticleThe first performance issue I've fixed
The first performance problem I've found and fixed in code written by someone else was in Gadu-Gadu. GG was an Windows instant messenger very popular in Poland in the early 2000s. It was closed,...
View ArticleDropping the botnet
Google Analytics sent me an email earlier today about changes in their data retention policy:Today we introduced granular data retention controls that allow you to manage how long your user and event...
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