Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by 100 percent, depending on the content. This tool is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical server and to improve the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor opens a page on a certain site, 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 pages that the website visitor browses and in case any of them is loaded for a second time, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance improvement comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests tremendously quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. In case any data is modified meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody accesses them.

Varnish in Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux hosting. You can add it to your web hosting account through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is offered with all shared web hosting plans and you will get a quite easy-to-work-with GUI, which will grant you full control over the content caching system. Using 1-click quick-access controls, you can restart or delete any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer work for a particular Internet site. You can also view a comprehensive system log or erase the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your hosting package, you will be able to select the maximum amount of memory that will be available to you for content caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always get more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for top performance, you can set a dedicated IP for the sites that will use Varnish. This will enable you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have a lot of happy users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish comes as standard with all semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can employ it with any site that you host in your account. In case you need more than that, you can increase the system memory quota. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The same Upgrades section will permit you to add more instances too, if you would like to use the Varnish platform with more Internet sites. The two things can be added independently – you can cache the content of one resource-heavy Internet site or use several Internet sites with the default memory allowance. You can get the most out of Varnish if you have a dedicated IP address and you can get one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. Hepsia will grant you full control over the caching platform and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you will be able to clear the cache, to check a system log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We offer Varnish with all of the Hepsia-equipped Linux VPS web hosting plans, so in case you obtain a server with this hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to make full use of the content caching platform at no additional cost. Varnish can utilize different amounts of memory for content caching purposes depending on the particular setup that you’ve picked on the order page, but nevertheless, this amount will not be less than several hundred megabytes. This is more than enough to boost the performance of a number of traffic-heavy Internet sites, so the better website loading speeds and the decreased load on your VPS will be perceivable. The result may not be distinguishable straight away, since Varnish will need some time to cache the site content that visitors access, but soon after you activate it, you’ll witness its full potential. This caching platform will allow you to use a less powerful Virtual Private Server and to give less cash to get the very same performance you’d get with a higher-end virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated web hosting plans that are ordered with the in-house developed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the machine. The Varnish caching platform can be activated and administered effortlessly through Hepsia’s simple-to-navigate graphical interface and, with no more than one click, you can see a detailed system log, create or restart an instance, clear the cache associated with any website and much more. Soon after you configure the Varnish platform for a specific domain or sub-domain, it will start caching the pages browsed by the visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you will perceive a tremendously faster site performance as well as a lowered load. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the platform for workload balancing purposes even if you run a vast number of websites on the server.