Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the load speed of any Internet site, at times even by 100 percent, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical server and to increase 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 info is delivered as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the website visitor browses and if any of them is accessed again, it’s served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance boost 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 users. If any content is updated meanwhile, the cached pages will also be updated the next time somebody accesses them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

You can use Varnish’s potential and improve the speed of your websites regardless of the website hosting package that you have selected and you can activate and set up the data caching platform with a couple of clicks of the mouse via the simple-to-work-with graphical interface offered by our avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll be able to choose two separate things – how many sites will use the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can add more instances with less memory and vice versa. If you have lots of content on a certain website and you draw many site visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will offer you easy 1-click buttons for shutting down or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache for each Internet site and for checking in-depth logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting offered by our company will allow you to use Varnish once your brand-new account has been opened, since the caching platform is offered by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this workload balancing software once your website has been taken online. In case you are in need of more system memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server right away. You can also increase the number of the sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not bound directly to the amount of memory that you use, which means that you’ll have more flexibility. The Varnish platform will seriously reduce the server load produced by your sites, so your visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish effortlessly from your Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/cancel any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached files for any of your websites or to view system logs.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

The Varnish platform is included by default with each of the Linux VPS hosting that we’re offering given that the VPS server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can boost the work of your sites with only a couple of clicks. The more powerful the package, the more system memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a less powerful plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you have a handful of sites, you will notice a substantial decrease in the server load and a tremendously faster website load speed. The platform will need to work for a while as the users browse the website and as soon as the website content has been cached, you will distinguish the effect. One of the benefits of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less high-priced VPS plan will accomplish the same job as a more costly one without the caching platform, so not only will your websites work considerably better, but you’ll also spare a certain amount of cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

All dedicated web hosting which are ordered with the in-house developed Hepsia web hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the server. The Varnish platform can be configured and managed without effort via Hepsia’s time and effort saving GUI and, with no more than one click, you can check a comprehensive system log, create or restart an instance, delete the cache associated with any website and much more. Shortly after you enable Varnish for a given domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the webpages browsed by your website visitors and as soon as it has cached enough content, you’ll observe a substantially faster website performance plus a lowered load on the dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at three gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for workload balancing purposes even if you run a huge number of sites on your server.