Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, because it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by 100%, depending on the content itself. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to decrease the overall server load and to accelerate the browsing speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor opens a page on a given Internet site, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested data is delivered as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the web pages that the site visitor opens and in case any of them is opened once more, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the overall performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests substantially faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is modified meanwhile, the cached pages will also be updated the next time somebody opens them.

Varnish in Hosting

If you host your Internet sites under a hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a few mouse clicks from your hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform comes as an upgrade with all our shared web hosting plans and you can choose how many websites will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be used for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they’re not directly linked to each other, so you can choose whether you want plenty of memory for one single large-sized site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of the Varnish platform if the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/remove an instance, clear the cached content independently for each website that uses Varnish or view a detailed log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Linux semi-dedicated servers offered by us will allow you to use Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated server account has been opened, since the content caching platform comes by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can take advantage of this load balancing software once your website has been published online. If you’re in need of more memory, you can get 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine in an instant. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you’ll have more flexibility. The caching platform will seriously decrease the load on the machine that your websites produce, so your visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish with ease from your Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You will be able to start/discontinue any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached files associated with any of your websites or to check system logs.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We offer Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped VPS web hosting plans, so in case you obtain a VPS with this hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to make use of the data caching platform at no additional cost. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of system memory for caching purposes based on the particular VPS package that you have picked at signup, but nevertheless, this amount won’t be less than several hundred MB. This is quite enough to improve the work of a handful of resource-consuming Internet sites, so the faster web page loading speeds and the decreased load on your server will be noticeable. The effect may not be obvious straight away, since Varnish will require some time to cache the site content that people open, but soon after you activate it, you will witness its full potential. This caching platform will allow you to use a less powerful VPS and to give less money to get the same performance you would get with a higher-end machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you want a powerful hosting solution and you buy one of the dedicated web hosting plans that we’re offering, you’ll be able to use the Varnish content caching platform to optimize the performance of your websites at no additional charge as long as the dedicated server is ordered with our innovative Hepsia Control Panel. Its simple-to-work-with graphical interface will enable you to keep track of system processes, to delete the cached contents or to restart any instance with one click of the mouse. The minimum amount of memory that the platform can employ to cache site content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for a vast number of resource-consuming websites, so your dedicated server will be able to deal with a huge system load while your website visitors are enjoying a smooth web browsing experience. As your dedicated machine will come with several dedicated IPs, you will be able to use Varnish’s maximum potential.