Varnish is a website accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, as it can increase the speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by 100%, based on the content itself. This tool is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical machine and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a given Internet site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested info is delivered as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the site visitor opens and in case any of them is accessed once more, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests considerably faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. If any data is changed in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be updated the next time somebody accesses them.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

If you host your websites under a cloud hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a few mouse clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our shared packages and you can choose how many websites will use it and the maximum storage space that will be available for the cached data. 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 decide if you want plenty of memory for a single large-sized website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of Varnish if the sites use a dedicated IP. Using the Control Panel, you can easily start/reboot/discontinue an instance, delete the cached data independently for each website which employs Varnish or check a comprehensive log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is a feature, which is included by default with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we’re offering and you can use it for workload distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The content caching platform comes with 64 MB 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 are in need of more, you can increase the memory allowance. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The very same Upgrades section will enable you to add more instances as well, in case you would like to use the Varnish platform with more Internet sites. The two upgrades can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of a single popular Internet site or run several websites with the default memory quota. You can take full advantage of the Varnish platform in case you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you complete control over the platform and, with no more than one mouse click, you will be able to delete the cached data, to see a system log or to restart an instance.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use Varnish with each of our virtual private server plans at no additional charge, since the content caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The sole condition is that the server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your websites with just a few clicks. Each VPS package offers a different amount of memory for content caching purposes, but you will have minimum several hundred MB, which is sufficient enough even for several traffic-intensive sites. Soon after you set up the Varnish platform, it’ll begin caching the content that your visitors access, so you will notice the tremendously better site loading times and the less load on your VPS server very soon. The platform will allow you to use a less costly VPS server, since you will not need that many resources to guarantee the uninterrupted operation of your websites even if you’ve got heavy-traffic websites with lots of visitors. Optimal results are accomplished if the sites that use the Varnish caching platform also use a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

All dedicated web hosting that are ordered with the custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated server. The Varnish content caching platform can be activated and managed without any effort from the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-use graphical interface and, with no more than one single click, you can view an in-depth log, add or restart an instance, clear the cached content associated with any website and much, much more. Shortly after you activate Varnish for a particular domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the pages accessed by the visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you will perceive a tremendously better site performance and a reduced load on the machine. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the platform for workload balancing purposes even if you run an immense number of Internet sites on the dedicated machine.