Varnish is a web app accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by 100 percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical server and to accelerate the browsing speed for the website visitors. Each time a visitor opens a page on a certain website, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested info is served as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the website visitor opens and in case any of them is opened once again, it is served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests substantially quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. In case any content is modified meanwhile, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone attempts to open them.

Varnish in Web Hosting

We offer Varnish as an optional upgrade with each web hosting and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your shared web hosting account using the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two different things that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one depends on the number of the Internet sites that you’d like to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, displays the total amount of data that the data caching platform can store at any given time. Hepsia’s easy-to-use graphical interface will allow you to disable or to restart any instance, to see exhaustive logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For maximum results, you can employ a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your site will open substantially faster, which means more pleased website users and potential clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish data caching platform is included in the standard service set that you’ll get if you decide to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your websites via our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the sites that can use this caching platform at the same time. As these two things aren’t linked to each other, you can use a few sites with the default memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for one single site. Varnish works best when you allocate a dedicated IP to the websites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with an easy way of rebooting any instance. Also, you’ll be able to delete the cached contents with only one single click.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use Varnish with each of our virtual private server plans at no additional cost, since the data caching platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The one and only requirement is that the Virtual Private Server must come with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your sites with only a few 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 enough even for several resource-heavy Internet sites. Soon after you enable Varnish, it will begin caching the content that your site visitors browse, so you will notice the considerably faster webpage loading speeds and the lowered load on your server in no time. The caching platform will permit you to use a less expensive virtual server, as you won’t need that much power to ensure the uninterrupted operation of your sites even if you have resource-heavy sites with a lot of visitors. Optimum results are achieved if the websites that use the Varnish platform also use a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

All dedicated web hosting that are ordered with the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the machine. The Varnish caching platform can be configured and managed effortlessly through the Hepsia Control Panel’s time and effort saving GUI and, with no more than one single click, you can see an elaborate system log, create or restart an instance, clear the cached data associated with any Internet site and much more. Soon after you set up Varnish for a given domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the webpages browsed by the site visitors and once it has cached enough content, you’ll observe a tremendously better site performance plus a lowered load on your dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for load distribution purposes even if you host lots of sites on your server.