Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any site, at times even by one hundred percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to increase the access speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a particular Internet site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested information is served as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the web pages that the site visitor browses and in case any of them is loaded once more, it is fetched by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance increase is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests significantly faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any content is changed in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone tries to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account with us, you will be able to add Varnish with several clicks of the mouse from your hosting Control Panel. The platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared packages and you can select how many websites will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they’re not directly linked to each other, so you can choose whether you want plenty of memory for one large-sized site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can use the full potential of the Varnish platform if the sites use a dedicated IP. Using the Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/remove an instance, clear the cached data independently for each website that employs the Varnish platform or check an elaborate log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated services that we’re offering will allow you to use Varnish once your new account has been activated, since the platform is available by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can take advantage of this load distribution software as soon as your site has been taken online. If you need more memory, you can get 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine immediately. You can also increase the number of the websites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly linked to the amount of system memory that you use, which means that you will enjoy more freedom. The caching platform will greatly lower the server load that your sites produce, so your visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish caching platform with no effort from the Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access controls. You will be able to start/cancel any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached content for any of your sites or to see system logs.

Varnish in VPS Web Hosting

You can take full advantage of the workload balancing potential of Varnish with any of our Linux VPS web hosting services in case you choose Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The Varnish platform comes by default and the amount of system memory that it’ll be able to use to cache your website content depends upon the specific Virtual Private Server plan that you’ve chosen, but even with the lower-end packages, you’ll have at least several hundred MB of memory at your disposal solely for content caching purposes. This amount is enough to enhance the performance of numerous websites. It will take a little time for you to see the effects, as Varnish caches the content that site visitors browse, but soon after that you will notice the substantially lowered load on the VPS and the enhanced site loading speed. Varnish will allow you to make use of a less powerful VPS package for websites that would usually need a more high-priced hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

You can use Varnish in order to enhance the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready to be used at no extra fee, but you’ll also have complete control over it via Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with interface. It will take just one single click of the mouse to start or disable an instance or to clear the cached content associated with any site that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you are more sophisticated, you can also browse the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 GB of system memory for content caching purposes, so even if you host a huge number of sites on your server and they all use the platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be distinguishable. You’ll just have to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever web pages the site visitors access on their end. The platform performs best if the sites use a dedicated IP, but since our dedicated servers include three charge-free IPs, you will have all that you need.