Varnish is a web accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any site, at times even by one hundred percent, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the physical server and to accelerate the browsing speed for the site visitors. Anytime 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 delivered as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor opens and if any of them is loaded again, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests substantially quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is changed in the meantime, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody tries to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can make use of Varnish’s full potential and improve the load speed of your sites regardless of the shared hosting plan that you’ve picked and you can activate and set up the data caching platform with a few mouse clicks from the easy-to-work-with GUI offered by our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the procedure, you will be able to choose two different things – how many sites will use Varnish, i.e. the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 MB and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and the other way around. In case you have lots of content on a specific site and you gain many site visitors, more memory will guarantee you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will provide you with simple 1-click controls for removing or restarting any instance, for deleting the cache associated with any website and for viewing elaborate system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated plans include Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the web application accelerator and optimize the load speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of memory dedicated to the Varnish accelerator at no extra cost and you’ll be able to create an instance with no more than a couple of mouse clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated packages. In case you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal right away. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if plenty of data will be cached for a single site or if the memory will be utilized by different sites. Hepsia will enable you to restart or to discontinue any instance, to view the system log for it or to delete the cached files using 1-click buttons. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can allocate a dedicated IP address to the sites which will use it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We offer Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed VPS plans, so in case you buy a VPS with this hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to make the most of the content caching platform at no extra fee. The Varnish platform can utilize different amounts of memory for data caching purposes based on the specific VPS plan that you’ve picked during the registration process, but nevertheless, this amount won’t be less than several hundred megabytes. This is quite enough to optimize the overall performance of several regularly visited websites, so the faster site load speeds and the decreased load on the VPS server will be perceivable. The effect may not be obvious instantly, as the Varnish platform will need some time to cache the website content that visitors browse, but soon after you activate it, you’ll observe its full potential. This platform will allow you to use a lower-end server and to give less money to get the very same performance you’d get with a more powerful virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish in order to accelerate the loading speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready for use at no additional charge, but you will also exert complete control over it via Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface. It will take just one single mouse click to start or delete an instance or to delete the cached data associated with any website that’s using the Varnish platform and if you are more sophisticated, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of system memory for data caching purposes, so even if you run many sites on your dedicated server and they all use the platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be evident. You will just need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever pages the website visitors browse on their end. The Varnish platform performs best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but since our servers come with 3 free IP addresses, you will have all that you need.