Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any website, at times even by one hundred percent, based on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to reduce the overall server load and to improve the access speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor loads a page on a certain site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested content is sent as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the pages that the visitor opens and in case any of them is loaded once more, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance increase is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests tremendously quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. If any data is modified meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone attempts to open them.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux cloud website hosting services. You can add it to your web hosting account from the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all shared plans and you’ll get a truly easy-to-use GUI, which will grant you complete control over the data caching system. Using one-click quick-access buttons, you can reboot or cancel any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be activated for a given Internet site. You can also view a comprehensive system log file or erase the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting plan, you’ll be able to choose the total amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for content caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for optimal performance, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to get the most out of your websites and to have a lot of happy site visitors.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting include Varnish by default, so you can take advantage of the web app accelerator tool and increase the speed of any site that you host on our platform. You will get 64 MB of memory particularly for Varnish at no extra fee and you will be able to activate an instance with no more than a couple of mouse clicks through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server plans. If you want more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal momentarily. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can choose whether a lot of content will be cached for a single website or if the memory will be utilized by different Internet sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to reboot or to cancel any instance, to see the system log associated with it or to delete the cached data using single-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the Internet sites that will use it.

Varnish in VPS

We offer Varnish with all Hepsia-managed VPS, so if you order a VPS with this hosting Control Panel, you will be able to take full advantage of the data caching platform at no extra cost. 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 signup process, but at any rate, this amount won’t be less than several hundred megabytes. This is quite enough to boost the work of several regularly visited Internet sites, so the better website loading speeds and the reduced load on the server will be perceivable. The effect may not be obvious immediately, since Varnish will need a certain amount of time to cache the website content that visitors browse, but shortly after you enable it, you’ll perceive its full capacity. This platform will permit you to use a lower-end VPS server and to give less cash to get the exact same performance you’d get with a more powerful virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

All Linux dedicated hosting services that are ordered with the custom Hepsia web hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the machine. The Varnish data caching platform can be enabled and administered without any effort from Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with interface and, with no more than one single mouse click, you can browse an exhaustive system log, create or reboot an instance, delete the cached files for any website and much, much more. Shortly after you set up the Varnish platform for a specific domain or sub-domain, it will start caching the pages accessed by your website visitors and once it has cached enough content, you’ll observe a considerably faster website performance and a decreased load on the machine. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at three gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for workload balancing purposes even if you host an immense number of Internet sites on your server.