Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any website, sometimes even by one hundred percent, based on the content itself. This tool is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the physical server and to boost the browsing speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor accesses a page on a particular website, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested information is sent as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the site visitor opens and in case any of them is loaded for a second time, it is served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance boost is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests tremendously faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any content is updated meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone opens them.

Varnish in Web Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a web hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of mouse clicks through your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform comes as an upgrade with all our plans and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be available for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they aren’t tied directly to each other, so you can choose whether you want plenty of memory for one large website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unlock the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP. Using the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/terminate an instance, delete the cached files independently for each site that uses Varnish or view a detailed log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is included as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any site that you host in your account. In case you are in need of more, you can increase the memory allocation. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 megabytes in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The very same Upgrades section will permit you to create more instances as well, if you’d like to use Varnish with more Internet sites. The two upgrades can be added independently – you can cache the content of one large-size Internet site or run a number of websites with the default memory. You can get the most out of the Varnish platform if you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated package as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you full control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you’ll be able to delete the cache, to view a system log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

Varnish is included by default with each of the Linux VPS hosting packages offered by our company given that the virtual machine is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can optimize the performance of your sites with just a few clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the package, the more memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a less powerful package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you’ve got several Internet sites, you will notice a serious decrease in the server load and a much better page loading speed. The Varnish platform will have to work for a while while the users navigate the site and as soon as the content has been cached, you’ll perceive the effect. One of the benefits of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less expensive package will accomplish the same job as a more high-priced one without the caching platform, so not only will your Internet sites perform substantially better, but you’ll also spare some cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can employ Varnish in order to improve the load speed of any website that is hosted on a dedicated server with our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready for use at no extra fee, but you will also have complete control over it via Hepsia’s user-friendly interface. It’ll take just one single click of the mouse to start or cancel an instance or to clear the cache associated with any website that is using the Varnish platform and in case you are more practiced, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of memory for site content caching purposes, so even if you host multiple sites on your server and they all use the Varnish platform, the difference in their overall performance will be detectable. You will only need to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever web pages the visitors open on their end. The platform performs best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers come with 3 free IP addresses, you will have everything you need.