Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the loading speed of any site, sometimes even by 100 percent, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the physical machine and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Anytime a visitor opens a page on a given Internet site, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested data is delivered as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the web pages that the visitor browses and if any of them is loaded once more, it’s served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The increase in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests significantly quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any content is modified meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone attempts to open them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with each website hosting and if you want to use it, you can add it to your shared account via the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re two different features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one depends on the number of the sites that you want to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, shows the maximum amount of data that the platform can store at any given time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface will permit you to terminate or to reboot any instance, to check detailed system logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just a click. For optimal results, you can use a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your website will load significantly faster, meaning more happy site visitors and prospective clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish comes as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated plans that we offer and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It is 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. If you’re in need of more, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The very same section will permit you to create more instances too, in case you want to use the Varnish platform with more Internet sites. The two upgrades can be added separately – you can cache the content of one single large-sized site or use several websites with the default memory quota. You can take full advantage of Varnish in case you use a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server package as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you full control over the platform and, with no more than one mouse click, you’ll be able to clear the cached data, to see a system log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with any of our VPS plans if you select Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform is offered by default and the memory that it’ll be able to use to cache your website content depends on the particular VPS plan that you have chosen, but even with the lower-end packages, you will have no less than several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal only for data caching purposes. This amount is enough to enhance the overall performance of numerous sites. It’ll take a little time for you to distinguish the effects, as Varnish caches the content that site visitors request, but shortly thereafter you’ll notice the substantially reduced server load and the improved website loading speed. Varnish will allow you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server plan for websites which would usually need a more costly web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish in order to improve the loading speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no additional cost, but you will also have full control over it via Hepsia’s easy-to-use graphical interface. It’ll take just one mouse click to start or cancel an instance or to delete the cached files for any website that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you’re more trained, you can also browse the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 GB of virtual memory for data caching purposes, so even if you host numerous sites on your server and they all use the platform, the difference in their performance will be perceivable. You’ll simply have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever web pages the website visitors browse on their end. The platform performs best if the websites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our servers include three free-of-cost IPs, you’ll have everything you need.