Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any website, sometimes even by 100%, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the physical machine and to improve the browsing speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor accesses a page on a given Internet site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested information is delivered as a reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor opens and in case any of them is accessed for a second time, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests tremendously quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. If any data is edited in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time somebody opens them.

Varnish in Hosting

If you host your sites under a hosting account with our company, you will be able to add Varnish with a couple of clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our hosting plans and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the maximum 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 memory and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can choose if you want a lot of memory for one single large-scale website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can use the full potential of Varnish if the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/reboot/cancel an instance, clear the cached files independently for each website which employs the Varnish platform or see a detailed log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is a feature, which is included by default with all Linux semi-dedicated servers offered by our company and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can employ it with any website that you host in the semi-dedicated account. In case you need more, you can increase the memory allowance. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same section will enable you to enable more instances too, in case you’d like to use the Varnish caching platform with more sites. The two upgrades can be added independently – you can cache the content of a single resource-requiring site or use several Internet sites with the default memory quota. You can take full advantage of Varnish if you’ve got a dedicated IP address and you can get one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. Hepsia will give you complete control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single click, you will be able to clear the cached files, to check a log or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We provide Varnish with all Hepsia-managed VPS web hosting service, so if you obtain a VPS with this Control Panel, you’ll be able to make use of the caching platform at no additional fee. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of system memory for content caching purposes based on the specific configuration that you have chosen during the signup process, but at any rate, this amount will not be less than several hundred MB. This is more than enough to boost the performance of a number of traffic-consuming websites, so the better web page browsing speeds and the decreased load on the VPS server will be discernible. The result may not be visible straight away, as Varnish will need a certain amount of time to cache the site content that people browse, but shortly after you activate it, you’ll witness its full potential. This platform will allow you to use a less powerful VPS and to pay less money to get the very same performance you’d get with a more powerful virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish in order to boost the speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on it. Not only will you get the platform ready to be used at no additional cost, but you’ll also exert complete control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with interface. It’ll take only one single click to start or discontinue an instance or to clear the cached content for any Internet site that’s using Varnish and in case you’re more experienced, you can also view the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 GB of virtual memory for website content caching purposes, so even if you host plenty of Internet sites on your server and they all use the platform, the difference in their performance will be distinguishable. You will simply need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever pages the site visitors load on their end. The Varnish platform performs best if the sites use a dedicated IP, but since our servers include three charge-free IPs, you’ll have everything you need.