Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, because it can increase the loading speed of any site, at times even by one hundred percent, based on the content itself. This tool is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical machine and to improve the browsing speed for the website visitors. Anytime a visitor accesses a page on a certain Internet site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested content is delivered as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the visitor browses and if any of them is opened once more, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance boost 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 visitors. In case any data is changed meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone attempts to open them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish’s potential and boost the load speed of your websites regardless of the website hosting plan that you’ve selected and you can enable and configure the platform with a few clicks from the simple-to-work-with interface offered by our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. During the procedure, you will be able to select two separate things – how many websites will use the Varnish caching platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 MB and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can add more instances with less memory and vice versa. In case you’ve got a lot of content on a given website and you receive numerous website visitors, more memory will give you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will offer you simple 1-click controls for switching off or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with any Internet site and for viewing detailed system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer will permit you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand-new semi-dedicated account has been created, since the data caching platform comes by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this workload balancing software once your website has been built. In case you need more memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server in an instant. You can also increase the number of the sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly bound to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you will have more freedom. The caching platform will seriously reduce the load on the semi-dedicated machine caused by your websites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform without effort through the Control Panel using quick-access controls. You will be able to start/delete any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached files for any of your sites or to see system logs.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can take full advantage of the load balancing potential of Varnish with any of our Linux VPS hosting if you choose Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform is offered by default and the system memory that it will be able to use to cache your website content is dependent upon the given plan that you have picked, but even with the lower-end packages, you will have no less than several hundred MB of memory at your disposal solely for data caching purposes. This amount is enough to boost the performance of numerous websites. It will take a little time for you to see the results, as Varnish caches the content that visitors request, but shortly after that you’ll notice the significantly reduced load on your virtual machine and the increased Internet site loading speed. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to make use of a less powerful VPS package for Internet sites which would normally need a more expensive hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can employ Varnish in order to optimize the speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready for use at no additional charge, but you will also have complete control over it through Hepsia’s intuitive graphical interface. It will take just one click of the mouse to start or stop an instance or to clear the cached files for any website that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you are more sophisticated, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 GB of memory for data caching purposes, so even if you run plenty of Internet sites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the difference in their overall performance will be apparent. You’ll just need to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever webpages the site visitors open on their end. The platform performs best when the Internet sites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our servers come with 3 cost-free IP addresses, you’ll have all that you need.