Varnish is a website accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any site, at times even by 100 percent, based on the content. This tool is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to increase the access speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor accesses a page on a particular Internet site, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested info is served as a response. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the visitor opens and in case any of them is accessed again, it is fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance increase is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests considerably quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is modified meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone accesses them.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each and every cloud website hosting service and if you would like to use it, you can add it to your shared web hosting account using the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two different things that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. The first one pertains to the number of the sites that you want to employ Varnish for and the second one, which comes in increments of 32 MB, indicates the total amount of data that the data caching platform can cache at any given time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface will enable you to terminate or to reboot any instance, to check detailed logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For maximum results, you can employ a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will load substantially faster, which means more satisfied site users and potential customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish platform is included in the default set of services that you’ll acquire when you decide to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your sites via our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount 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 at the same time. As these two things are not linked to each other, you can use several sites with the default amount of memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for a single Internet site. The Varnish platform performs best when you get a dedicated IP address for the sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you an easy means of rebooting any instance. What’s more, you’ll be able to clear the cached contents with just one click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed Linux VPS hosting, so in case you acquire a server with this hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to make use of the caching platform at no extra cost. Varnish can utilize different amounts of memory for data caching purposes depending on the particular VPS package that you’ve picked during the server order process, but nevertheless, this amount won’t be less than several hundred MB. This is quite enough to enhance the work of a handful of traffic-hungry Internet sites, so the better website browsing speeds and the lowered load on the Virtual Private Server will be noticeable. The effect may not be detectable instantly, since the Varnish platform will require some time to cache the site content that people access, but shortly after you activate it, you’ll witness its full potential. This caching platform will permit you to use a less powerful Virtual Private Server and to pay less cash to get the exact same performance you would get with a more powerful virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will acquire the Varnish caching platform at no additional charge and you’ll have total control over it via a truly simple-to-navigate graphical interface – you’ll be able to start, to disable or to reboot an instance, to view an elaborate log, to clear the cached content for any site and much, much more. The Varnish caching platform will have several gigabytes of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you’ve got traffic-consuming Internet sites with many visitors, you will notice the considerably better site load speeds and the decreased load on the dedicated machine. This will become a fact shortly after you begin using Varnish, as it will need some time to cache the pages that users open. You can take full advantage of the platform’s potential if the Internet sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that your dedicated server comes with several IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the server itself.