Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, as it can increase the load speed of any site, at times even by 100%, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall server load and to increase the access speed for the site visitors. Anytime a visitor opens a page on a certain site, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested info is delivered as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the pages that the visitor opens and if any of them is opened for a second time, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the overall performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests tremendously faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is updated in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone attempts to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each shared hosting and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your hosting account through the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re two separate features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that you want to employ Varnish for and the second one, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, refers to the total amount of data that the platform can cache at any given time. Hepsia’s simple-to-use graphical interface will allow you to discontinue or to restart any instance, to check exhaustive logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For best results, you can employ a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your website will open much faster, meaning more happy website users and potential customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting services that we’re offering will permit you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated server account has been created, since the platform comes by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can make use of this workload distribution software as soon as your website has been published online. If you need more memory, you can order 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine right away. You can also increase the number of the websites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly bound to the amount of memory that you use, which suggests that you’ll enjoy more freedom. The caching platform will considerably reduce the load on the semi-dedicated machine produced by your sites, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish caching platform without efforts from the Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You will be able to start/disable any of the instances that you have, to clear the cached content for any of your Internet sites or to see system logs.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use Varnish with any of our virtual private server packages at no extra cost, as the platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The only requirement is that the VPS server must come with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your websites with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. Each VPS plan includes a different amount of memory for caching purposes, but you’ll have no less than several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for several traffic-heavy Internet sites. Shortly after you activate Varnish, it will begin caching the content that your website visitors access, so you will notice the much faster site load times and the lowered server load very soon. The caching platform will allow you to use a less costly VPS server, since you won’t require that many resources to guarantee the proper operation of your Internet sites even if you manage resource-requiring sites with lots of visitors. Optimal results are achieved if the websites which use the Varnish platform use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will obtain the Varnish caching platform at no additional fee and you’ll exert total control over it via a truly simple-to-navigate graphical interface – you’ll be able to start, to disable or to restart an instance, to see a detailed log, to delete the cached content associated with any Internet site and much more. Varnish will have several gigabytes of memory at its disposal, so even if you own high-demand websites with a vast number of visitors, you will notice the considerably better website loading speeds and the decreased load on your dedicated machine. This will become a fact shortly after you start using the Varnish platform, as it will need a certain amount of time to cache the web pages that people access. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capacity if the Internet sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP address, but since your dedicated server includes several IPs by default, you will not need to pay anything on top of your monthly fee for the server itself.