Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, as it can increase the load speed of any site, sometimes even by 100%, based on the content itself. This tool is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to accelerate the browsing speed for the site visitors. Whenever a visitor loads a page on a given website, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested content is served as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the pages that the visitor browses and if any of them is opened for a second time, it is served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance improvement is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests considerably quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any data is edited meanwhile, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody attempts to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each Linux shared hosting and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your hosting account using the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re two different things that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that you’d like to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which comes in increments of 32 megabytes, shows the total amount of content that the platform can cache at any particular time. Hepsia’s user-friendly graphical interface will allow you to terminate or to reboot any instance, to see exhaustive logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just one click. For maximum results, you can employ a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will load substantially faster, which means more happy site visitors and prospective clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Linux semi-dedicated servers offered by our company will permit you to use Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated account has been activated, as the content caching platform is available by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can use this load distribution software as soon as your website has been built. If you need more memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated 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 tied to the amount of system memory that you use, which means that you’ll have more versatility. The Varnish platform will enormously lower the load on the semi-dedicated server caused by your sites, so your visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform without any effort from your Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You will be able to start/discontinue any of the instances that you’ve got, to clear the cached content associated with any of your Internet sites or to check system logs.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take full advantage of the load balancing potential of Varnish with any of our VPS servers when you choose Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform is available by default and the memory that it’ll be able to use to cache your website content is dependent on the particular VPS plan that you have picked, but even with the less powerful packages, you’ll have at least several hundred MB of memory at your disposal only for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to improve the performance of multiple sites. It’ll take a little time for you to see the effects, since the Varnish platform caches the content that website visitors request, but soon thereafter you’ll notice the significantly less load on the virtual server and the increased Internet site load speed. Varnish will permit you to use a less powerful VPS package for Internet sites which would usually require a more costly web hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you want the most powerful hosting solution and you purchase any of the dedicated service offered by us, you will be able to use the Varnish caching platform to boost the overall performance of your websites at no extra fee on the condition that the server is ordered with our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its simple-to-work-with interface will enable you to keep an eye on system processes, to delete the cached contents or to reboot any instance with one single mouse click. The minimal amount of system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache site content is three gigabytes, which is more than enough for a huge collection of resource-absorbing Internet sites, so your server will be able to handle an enormous load while your Internet site visitors are enjoying a smooth browsing experience. As your server will come with several different dedicated IPs, you’ll be able to make use of Varnish’s maximum potential.