Hi Richard,<div><br></div><div>What you need, sounds like we offer in the Diagnostic Package, which probably also has a price point closer to your budget (it is listed on the price plan). For more information and pricing, see: <a href="https://www.varnish-software.com/products-services/diagnostics-varnish-cache">https://www.varnish-software.com/products-services/diagnostics-varnish-cache</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, Varnish Training is always a good option so you can fix such issues yourselves. We have a classroom session planned for San Francisco at the end of the month (after Velocity). Details and registration: <a href="https://www.varnish-software.com/products-services/training/varnish-administration-course">https://www.varnish-software.com/products-services/training/varnish-administration-course</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Should you have any further questions, feel free to get in touch with me directly.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Richard Price <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@academia.edu" target="_blank">richard@academia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I'm the founder of Academia.edu, which is a platform for academics to share research papers. We have been using Varnish for about 18 months, and have recently been experiencing some issues where items are falling out of the cache after a few minutes, despite a ttl of 30 days, leading to a 50% hit rate. </div>
<div><br></div><div>We've established that the pages are not being nuked by Varnish, nor are we purging them. We're looking to have an experienced eye look over our Varnish config to see if anything stands out. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Does anyone on this list know of any Varnish consultants who we might be able to hire on an hourly basis? I've looked into the price plan at <a href="https://www.varnish-software.com/products-services/price-plan" target="_blank">https://www.varnish-software.com/products-services/price-plan</a>, but it looks like the minimum spend there is 3,300 euros, and we are just looking for someone to scan our config for an hour or two initially, so an hourly consulting rate would suit us better. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Any recommendations or leads would be very helpful. We are based in San Francisco. Many thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Richard</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div>Richard Price</div>
<div>Founder and CEO, Academia.edu</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Its mission is to accelerate the world's research. It is transforming the way scientists communicate.</i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Read more on our <a href="http://blog.academia.edu" target="_blank">blog</a>, or watch a <a href="http://bit.ly/AwKvux" target="_blank">speech</a> I gave on the future of science.</i></div><div>
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<div>l: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/RichardPrice" target="_blank">http://linkedin.com/in/RichardPrice</a></div></div></font></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div>All the best,</div>-- <br><div>
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