Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by 100 percent, based on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the physical server and to increase the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor accesses a page on a given website, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested information is returned as a response. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the website visitor opens and if any of them is opened once again, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The boost in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests substantially faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any data is updated meanwhile, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone opens them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each shared hosting plan and if you would like to use it, you can add it to your website hosting account via the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two separate things that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that you want to use Varnish for and the second one, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, indicates the maximum amount of content that the content caching platform can store at any given time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with interface will enable you to stop or to reboot any instance, to see detailed system logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For best 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, meaning more satisfied visitors and prospective customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is a feature, which is offered as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated servers offered by our company and you can use it for workload distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any website that you host in your account. In case you need more, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The same Upgrades section will enable you to enable more instances as well, if you wish to use Varnish with multiple websites. The two upgrades can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of a single traffic-hungry Internet site or run a number of Internet sites with the default memory allowance. You can get the most out of the Varnish caching platform in case you use a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you full control over the platform and, with no more than a click, you will be able to clear the cached contents, to see a system log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Servers

The Varnish content caching platform comes by default with each of the VPS web hosting plans that we offer given that the machine is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can improve the overall performance of your websites with just a couple of mouse clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a lower-end package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you have several different sites, you will notice an immense decrease in the overall server load and a considerably better website load speed. The platform will have to work for a little while as the visitors navigate the site and once the content has been cached, you’ll distinguish the results. One of the benefits of employing Varnish is that a less powerful and less high-priced Virtual Private Server package will do the very same job as a more high-priced one without the platform, so not only will your sites perform substantially better, but you’ll also save some cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated servers that are ordered with the in-house developed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the dedicated machine. The Varnish content caching platform can be activated and administered effortlessly from the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with interface and, with no more than one single mouse click, you can view a detailed system log, add or restart an instance, delete the cached content for any Internet site and much more. Shortly after you configure the Varnish platform for a certain domain or subdomain, it will start caching the webpages browsed by the site visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you will observe a substantially better website performance plus a decreased load on the dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you will be able to use the software platform for workload distribution purposes even if you host plenty of websites on the machine.