Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any website, sometimes even by 100 percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to improve the browsing speed for the website visitors. Anytime a visitor loads a page on a specific site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested information is sent as a response. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the site visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed once again, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests substantially quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. In case any data is updated in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody tries to access them.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with all our cloud website hosting plans. You can add it to your account from the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all shared web hosting plans and you will get a quite simple-to-work-with graphical interface, which will give you full control over the caching system. Using 1-click quick-access buttons, you can restart or stop any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer work for a given Internet site. You can also check an in-depth log or clear the cache associated with any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your hosting package, you will be able to choose the maximum amount of memory that will be available to you for content caching purposes and the number of the websites that will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for maximum performance, you can allocate a dedicated IP address to the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have a lot of gratified visitors.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish data caching platform is included in the standard service set that you’ll get if you choose to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can configure it for any of your Internet sites through our cutting-edge Hepsia Control Panel. The default amount of system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the websites that can use this platform simultaneously. Since these two things are not tied to each other, you can use several Internet sites with the default amount of memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for one single Internet site. Varnish performs best when you use a dedicated IP address for the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with a simple way of rebooting any instance. What’s more, you will be able to clear the cached content with only one mouse click.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed VPS plans, so in case you order a server with this web hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to make full use of the data caching platform at no additional charge. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of memory for caching purposes depending on the very VPS package that you have picked during the registration process, but at any rate, this amount won’t be less than several hundred megabytes. This is quite enough to enhance the work of a number of large sites, so the better website browsing speeds and the less load on your Virtual Private Server will be noticeable. The effect may not be distinguishable immediately, as the Varnish platform will require some time to cache the website content that users access, but shortly after you activate it, you will perceive its full potential. This platform will allow you to use a lower-end VPS server and to pay less cash to get the exact same performance you’d get with a more powerful machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish to increase the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready for use at no extra cost, but you will also exert complete control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-navigate interface. It will take only one single click of the mouse to start or remove an instance or to clear the cache for any website that’s using Varnish and if you’re more proficient, you can also browse the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of virtual memory for data caching purposes, so even in case you run multiple sites on your machine and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be obvious. You will only have to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the visitors load on their end. The Varnish platform performs best if the websites use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that our servers include 3 free-of-cost IPs, you will have everything you need.