Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by 100%, based on the content. This tool is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to decrease the overall load on the server and to enhance the access speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor loads a page on a certain website, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested content is returned as a reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the site visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed for a second time, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The improvement in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests substantially quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any content is changed meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone tries to access them.

Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting

You can unlock Varnish’s potential and accelerate your sites’ speed regardless of the cloud web hosting package that you’ve chosen and you can enable and set up the data caching platform with several clicks of the mouse through the user-friendly graphical interface offered by our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two separate things – how many sites will employ Varnish, in other words – the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 MB and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can add more instances and less memory and the other way around. In case you have a lot of content on a particular website and you attract many visitors, more system memory will give you better results. You may also consider using a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you easy one-click controls for disabling or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with each Internet site and for seeing in-depth system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated servers include Varnish by default, so you can make use of the website accelerator and enhance the load speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 MB of system memory exclusively for the Varnish accelerator at no extra cost and you’ll be able to activate an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server packages. If you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal instantly. You can also order more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide if plenty of data will be cached for a single website or whether the available memory will be utilized by multiple sites. Hepsia will allow you to reboot or to shut down any instance, to check the system log associated with it or to clear the cached content using 1-click buttons. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can set a dedicated IP for the sites that will employ it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed VPS servers, so in case you get a server with this web hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to use the content caching platform at no extra fee. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of system memory for caching purposes based on the particular Virtual Private Server plan that you have picked during the subscription process, but in any case, this amount won’t be less than several hundred megabytes. This is more than enough to boost the work of a handful of resource-demanding sites, so the better web page load speeds and the lowered load on your server will be discernible. The result may not be distinguishable momentarily, since the Varnish platform will require some time to cache the content that people access, but soon after you enable it, you’ll perceive its full potential. This platform will allow you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server and to pay less cash to get the same performance you would get with a more powerful virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All Linux dedicated servers which are ordered with the tailor-made Hepsia web hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the machine. The Varnish data caching platform can be enabled and managed without effort through the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with GUI and, with no more than one mouse click, you can browse a comprehensive log, add or restart an instance, clear the cached content associated with any website and much, much more. Soon after you activate Varnish for a certain domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the webpages accessed by the site visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you will observe a tremendously faster site performance as well as a decreased load on the server. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you will be able to use the software platform for load balancing purposes even if you host many websites on the dedicated server.