Varnish is a website accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any website, sometimes even by 100%, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the server and to accelerate the browsing speed for the site visitors. Whenever a visitor loads a page on a particular website, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested information is sent as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the pages that the website visitor browses and if any of them is loaded once more, it is served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the overall performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests considerably quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any data is modified meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody tries to open them.

Varnish in Hosting

You can unlock Varnish’s potential and improve the loading speed of your sites regardless of the hosting package that you’ve selected and you can enable and set up the data caching platform with several clicks through the simple-to-work-with interface offered by our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the procedure, you’ll be able to choose two separate things – how many sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got lots of content on a specific website and you win lots of site visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will provide you with easy 1-click buttons for removing or restarting any instance, for deleting the cache associated with any website and for checking elaborate logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is a feature, which comes as standard with all semi-dedicated services that we are offering and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any website that you host in your semi-dedicated account. In case you’re in need of more than that, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same Upgrades section will allow you to enable more instances too, if you want to use Varnish with more Internet sites. The two upgrades can be added independently – you can cache the content of a single busy website or run a number of Internet sites with the default memory allowance. You can take full advantage of Varnish in case you use a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated package as well. Hepsia will grant you complete control over the caching platform and, with no more than one mouse click, you’ll be able to delete the cached contents, to check a log file or to restart an instance.

Varnish in VPS

We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-equipped VPS, so if you purchase a VPS with this hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to use the data caching platform at no extra fee. Varnish can utilize different amounts of memory for caching purposes based on the specific server configuration that you’ve picked during the signup process, but in any case, this amount will not be less than several hundred MB. This is more than enough to improve the performance of a handful of regularly visited sites, so the better website loading speeds and the decreased load on your Virtual Private Server will be perceivable. The effect may not be apparent right away, since Varnish will require some time to cache the content that people browse, but soon after you enable it, you will observe its full potential. This caching platform will allow you to use a lower-end VPS and to give less cash to get the same performance you’d get with a more powerful machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

You can employ Varnish in order to optimize the loading speed of any website 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 data caching platform ready for use at no additional charge, but you will also have total control over it through Hepsia’s user-friendly graphical interface. It’ll take only a click to start or shut down an instance or to clear the cache for any Internet site that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you’re more proficient, you can also browse the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for site content caching purposes, so even in case you host a large number of Internet sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their performance will be obvious. You’ll simply have to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever content the site visitors open on their end. The platform performs best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers come with three cost-free IP addresses, you will have everything you need.