Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, as it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by 100 percent, based on the content. This tool is sometimes called a caching 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 given website, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested information is returned as a response. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the pages that the site visitor browses and in case any of them is loaded once again, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the overall performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests significantly quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any content is edited in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone tries to access them.

Varnish in Web Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each Linux web hosting and if you would like to use it, you can add it to your shared website hosting account through the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one depends on the number of the websites that you wish to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is offered in increments of 32 MB, indicates the total amount of content that the content caching platform can cache at any particular time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with graphical interface will permit you to turn off or to reboot any instance, to check elaborate logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just one click. For best results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will open much faster, which means more pleased site visitors and prospective customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish content caching platform is included in the basic set of services that you will receive in case you decide to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can enable it for any of your sites through our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. The default system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is 64 MB, but if you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the websites that can use this caching platform simultaneously. Since these two features are not tied to each other, you can use a few instances with the default amount of memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single Internet site. The Varnish caching platform performs best if you use a dedicated IP for the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with a simple way of restarting any instance. Also, you will be able to delete the cached contents with only one single click.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We provide Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped VPS hosting service, so in case you purchase a server with this web hosting Control Panel, you will be able to make use of the caching platform at no additional cost. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of system memory for content caching purposes based on the very VPS plan that you’ve chosen during the VPS order process, but nevertheless, this amount will not be less than several hundred megabytes. This is more than enough to enhance the overall performance of several different traffic-intensive sites, so the better web page load speeds and the reduced load on your server will be perceptible. The effect may not be visible instantly, as Varnish will need a certain amount of time to cache the website content that users open, but soon after you set it up, you will observe its full potential. This platform will permit you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server and to give less money to get the exact same performance you’d get with a higher-end machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish in order to improve the speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready to be used at no additional fee, but you’ll also have total control over it through Hepsia’s intuitive GUI. It will take just one single click of the mouse to start or disable an instance or to clear the cached data for any Internet site that’s using Varnish and if you’re more proficient, you can also view the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for web content caching purposes, so even if you host a huge number of sites on your machine and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be observable. You’ll just need to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever content the site visitors browse on their end. The platform performs best when the sites use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that our dedicated servers include three cost-free IP addresses, you’ll have everything you need.