Varnish is a web accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, as it can increase the loading speed of any site, at times even by 100 percent, depending on the content. This tool is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical server and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a certain Internet site, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested information is sent as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor opens and if any of them is loaded for a second time, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests substantially quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any data is changed in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone attempts to access them.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each Linux shared web hosting and if you want to use it, you can add it to your shared hosting account through the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two different features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the websites that you’d like to employ Varnish for and the second one, which comes in increments of 32 MB, shows the maximum amount of content that the platform can store at any given time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface will enable you to switch off or to reboot any instance, to view elaborate logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just one click. For optimum results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will load tremendously faster, which means more satisfied website users and potential customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering will allow you to use Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated account is active, since the data caching platform comes by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can make use of this load distribution software as soon as you launch your website. If you need more system memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine straight away. You can also increase the number of the sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you will have more versatility. The platform will considerably reduce the load on the semi-dedicated machine produced by your websites, so your visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish caching platform without efforts via the Control Panel using quick-access controls. You will be able to start/stop any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached content for any of your Internet sites or to check system log files.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use Varnish with each of our virtual private server packages at no extra cost, since the caching platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The sole condition is that the server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you will be able to set up Varnish for any of your sites with just a couple of mouse clicks. Each plan includes a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes, which is quite sufficient even for multiple resource-absorbing Internet sites. Shortly after you set up Varnish, it will start caching the content that your site visitors browse, so you’ll notice the tremendously better Internet site loading speeds and the decreased load on the VPS server in no time. The Varnish platform will permit you to use a less high-priced VPS server, as you will not need that much power to sustain the uninterrupted operation of your sites even if you’ve got traffic-intensive websites with many visitors. Best results are accomplished if the sites which use Varnish use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can employ Varnish in order to accelerate the speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server from us when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no additional cost, but you will also exert full control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-use interface. It’ll take just one click of the mouse to start or remove an instance or to clear the cached data for any site that is using Varnish and if you are more experienced, you can also view the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of virtual memory for web content caching purposes, so even in case you host a large number of sites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish platform, the difference in their performance will be perceivable. You’ll just have to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever content the site visitors open on their end. The Varnish platform performs best when the websites use a dedicated IP address, but since our dedicated servers come with 3 charge-free IP addresses, you’ll have all that you need.