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Wikispaces Refugees

Last Updated March 14, 2018March 14, 2018No Comments

If you haven’t heard the news, Wikispaces is closing and all wikis will be deleted forever. 🙁 CiviHosting, however, has a migration service, the only of its kind: Wikispaces Migration

MediaWiki vs DokuWiki

Last Updated September 3, 2020September 3, 2020

Interested in finding the wiki that’s right for you? Yes, so are we. 🙂 In the open source wiki marketplace, there are several options, including MediaWiki, DokuWiki, TWiki, Tiki Wiki and TiddlyWiki, as well as smaller players such as MoinMoin, PmWiki, PhpWiki and WikkaWiki. To see what’s happening in this market, let’s take a brief look at this Google Trends graph of interest in the top five packages over the past year (click to see the image larger): Seems clear that MediaWiki and DokuWiki are the top contenders. MediaWiki is more well-known, but DokuWiki is trying to close the gap. The Internet Techies site indeed lists it as number 2… Read More

Wikispaces Conversion

Last Updated March 14, 2018March 14, 20181 Comment

UPDATE: Our Wikispaces migration service is now ready and we are actively migrating sites. See our Wikispaces Migration page for more details. Original Post: Due to the recent news that Wikispaces is closing, we are making progress with our conversion tool to convert Wikispaces exported data into a Dokuwiki site. We are now actively seeking more candidates who are interested to convert their Wikispaces site into a Dokuwiki site hosted on our servers. Use our contact us page to let us know and help us further our development.

Wikispaces is Closing

Last Updated March 11, 2018March 11, 20181 Comment

The Wikispaces team has announced the news that they are closing up shop for good. On their Classroom and Free Wikis page they note that: we do not have a way of exporting your Wiki direct from Wikispaces to another site What that means is that Wikispaces sites will be stuck soon with no option. We at CiviHosting, however, have developed an migration tool to allow users to convert their sites to another Wiki format. See our Wikispaces Migration page for full details.

CiviCRM Pay Later Option Bug

Last Updated February 26, 2018No Comments

One of our clients recently upgraded to CiviCRM 4.7.29 and then their existing Contribution page started giving a 500 Server Error. They asked us to debug and we found that the issue was a missing classname and we traced that to the Pay Later option. Then we found this Pay later not appearing as payment option which looked similar and says it was fixed for CiviCRM 4.7.30. We upgraded their site and indeed their bug was fixed also.

WooCommerce 3.3.1 Released

Last Updated February 25, 2018No Comments

This month WooCommerce 3.3.1 was released including a serious bug fix that rendered many sites inoperable. See the link above for full details. WooCommerce sites are recommended to upgrade.

Nextcloud App Development

Last Updated February 24, 2018February 24, 2018No Comments

We are beginning work next week on developing these two apps: files extended metadata duplicate file detection This will be our first venture into Nextcloud App Development. Stay tuned for more news.

Meltdown and Spectre

Last Updated January 9, 2018January 9, 2018No Comments

Meltdown and Spectre are two recently-discovered security vulnerabilities in modern CPUs, including those used on our servers. The brief response from CiviHosting regarding these two issues is that Meltdown is a serious vulnerability, but our servers are not vulnerable to it. Spectre is less serious, but our servers are not vulnerable to it either. The more detailed response, for those interested, begins with a brief review of what the issues are: Meltdown is described on the Meldown Wikipedia page as: Meltdown is a hardware vulnerability affecting Intel x86 microprocessors and some ARM-based microprocessors. It allows a rogue process to read any kernel memory, regardless of whether it should be able… Read More

GDPR Compliance

Last Updated January 8, 2018No Comments

The GDPR is the General Data Protection Regulation and as the home page of the EU GDPR site says: After four years of preparation and debate the GDPR was finally approved by the EU Parliament on 14 April 2016. It will enter in force 20 days after its publication in the EU Official Journal and will be directly application in all members states two years after this date. Enforcement date: 25 May 2018 – at which time those organizations in non-compliance will face heavy fines. This regulation, or set or regulations, governs data security and the privacy of individuals. As the EU GDPR home page also says: The EU General… Read More

Laravel vs Symfony

Last Updated July 20, 2020July 20, 2020No Comments

The Right Tool for the Job The phone rings. You pick it up. It’s the national lottery — they tell you that if you can be at their office within 15 minutes, you get the entire pot, upwards of 15 million dollars! But you’re at home, not so close to that office. You need to decide on the spot how to get there. Right now, in the middle of rush hour, going by car may take more than 15 minutes. But riding your bike might also take more than 15 minutes. You have now 30 seconds to decide and your heart is racing, because the phone call was real and… Read More