Varnish is a web app accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, because it can increase the loading speed of any website, sometimes even by one hundred percent, based on the content. This tool is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall server load and to boost the browsing speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor accesses a page on a specific website, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested information is delivered as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the pages that the website visitor browses and in case any of them is opened once more, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance boost is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests significantly faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is updated meanwhile, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody tries to open them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites under a website hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse through your Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our hosting packages and you can choose how many websites will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can choose if you need lots of memory for one large-sized site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of Varnish in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can quickly start/reboot/remove an instance, delete the cached files independently for each site which uses Varnish or view an elaborate system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Linux semi-dedicated servers offered by us will allow you to employ Varnish once your brand-new semi-dedicated server account has been created, as the platform is offered by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the moment your account is activated, so you can make use of this workload balancing software as soon as you launch your website. In case you are in need of more memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine instantly. You can also increase the number of the websites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly bound to the amount of system memory that you use, which means that you’ll enjoy more versatility. The Varnish caching platform will enormously decrease the server load that your sites produce, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform effortlessly via the Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You will be able to start/shut down any of the instances that you have, to clear the cached content for any of your sites or to check system log files.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use Varnish with each of our VPS server packages at no extra fee, as the platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only prerequisite is that the server must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you will be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with only a few mouse clicks. Each package includes a different amount of memory for content caching purposes, but you will get at least several hundred MB, which is quite enough even for several traffic-heavy Internet sites. Shortly after you activate Varnish, it will start caching the content that your site visitors open, so you will notice the much faster webpage load times and the less load on your VPS in no time. The Varnish platform will permit you to use a less high-priced virtual machine, as you will not require that much power to sustain the proper operation of your websites even if you manage traffic-intensive Internet sites with a lot of visitors. Maximum results are achieved if the sites which use Varnish use also a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated web hosting plans that are ordered with the custom-built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated server. The Varnish caching platform can be activated and administered without efforts from Hepsia’s user-friendly interface and, with no more than one single mouse click, you can browse an elaborate log, add or reboot an instance, delete the cached data for any Internet site and much, much more. Shortly after you activate the Varnish platform for a specific domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the webpages requested by your site visitors and as soon as it has cached enough content, you’ll perceive a significantly better website performance in addition to a reduced load on your server. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for workload balancing purposes even if you host multiple websites on the dedicated machine.