Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any site, at times even by one hundred percent, based on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the physical machine and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor accesses a page on a particular website, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested content is served as a reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the website visitor opens and in case any of them is opened once more, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance boost is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests significantly quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is changed in the meantime, the cached pages will also be updated the next time somebody attempts to open them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a website hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks through your Control Panel. The caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our shared hosting packages and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be available for the cached content. 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 are not linked directly to each other, so you can decide if you need lots of memory for one large-scale site 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 address. Using the Control Panel, you can easily start/restart/stop an instance, delete the cached files independently for each site which employs the Varnish platform or view an in-depth system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish platform is included in the standard set of services that you will get in case you choose to host your websites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your sites via our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but if you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the websites that can use this platform at the same time. As these two features are not tied to each other, you can use a couple of instances with the default memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for one single site. The Varnish caching platform works best if you assign a dedicated IP to the Internet sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with an easy way of rebooting any instance. Also, you will be able to clear the cached files with just one single click.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

The Varnish data caching platform is included by default with each of the Linux VPS hosting services offered by us as long as the machine is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can boost the performance of your websites with only a couple of mouse clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a low-end package, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you own a handful of websites, you will notice a significant reduction in the overall server load and a much faster site loading speed. The platform will need to work for a little while as the visitors navigate the web pages and once the content has been cached, you will perceive the results. One of the upsides of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less costly package will accomplish the very same job as a more costly one without the caching platform, so not only will your websites perform much better, but you’ll also save some money.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can employ Varnish in order to improve the speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready to be used at no extra fee, but you’ll also have total control over it via Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface. It will take just one click of the mouse to start or shut down an instance or to delete the cached files for any Internet site that is using Varnish and if you’re more tech-savvy, you can also view the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of memory for web content caching purposes, so even if you run an enormous number of sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the platform, the difference in their performance will be visible. You will just need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever webpages the site visitors access on their end. The platform works best if the sites use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that our servers include three free IPs, you’ll have everything you need.