Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the load speed of any Internet site, at times even by 100 percent, depending on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to enhance the browsing speed for the site visitors. Anytime a visitor loads a page on a given website, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested information is sent as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the web pages that the site visitor opens and in case any of them is opened once again, it’s served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The boost in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests substantially quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. If any data is changed in the meantime, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody tries to access them.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish’s full potential and accelerate the load speed of your sites irrespective of the shared website hosting plan that you’ve chosen and you can activate and configure the data caching platform with a couple of mouse clicks using the simple-to-use graphical interface offered by our next-generation Hepsia Control Panel. During the procedure, you will be able to select two separate things – how many websites will employ the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 MB and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can add more instances with less memory and the other way around. If you’ve got plenty of content on a specific site and you get plenty of site visitors, more system memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the sites that will use Varnish. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you simple one-click buttons for cancelling or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with any website and for checking comprehensive system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we are offering will allow you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand new account has been opened, as the platform is available by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can use this workload distribution software once your site has been launched online. In case you are in need of more memory, you can get 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine in an instant. You can also increase the number of the sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly linked to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you’ll enjoy more flexibility. The caching platform will significantly reduce the load on the server generated by your sites, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform effortlessly via your Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/disable any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached content for any of your websites or to see system logs.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can take full advantage of the load balancing potential of Varnish with each of our Linux VPS hosting packages in case you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform is available by default and the memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache the content of your sites depends upon the particular VPS package that you have chosen, but even with the lower-end plans, you will have at least several hundred MB of memory at your disposal exclusively for data caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to boost the work of numerous websites. It’ll take a little time for you to see the effects, as Varnish caches the content that visitors open, but soon thereafter you’ll notice the considerably lowered load on the VPS server and the enhanced Internet site loading speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to make use of a lower-end Virtual Private Server plan for websites that would typically need a more pricey web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you will acquire Varnish at no additional fee and you’ll exert complete control over it via an incredibly simple-to-use GUI – you’ll be able to start, to deactivate or to reboot an instance, to view a comprehensive system log, to delete the cache associated with any site and much, much more. The Varnish caching platform will have several gigabytes of system memory at its disposal, so even if you’ve got resource-intensive Internet sites with plenty of visitors, you’ll notice the much better site loading speeds and the less load on the machine. This will happen shortly after you start using Varnish, as it will require some time to cache the pages that visitors request. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capability in case the sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP address, but since your server includes a few IPs by default, you will not need to pay anything on top of the monthly charge for the server itself.