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 site, sometimes even by 100 percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical machine and to accelerate the browsing speed for the site visitors. Anytime a visitor loads a page on a certain site, the browser request is processed by the web server and the requested content is delivered as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the pages that the visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed once again, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The boost in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests tremendously quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is updated in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody attempts to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each and every Linux shared hosting and if you want to use it, you can add it to your shared hosting account using the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one depends on the number of the sites that you would like to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, pertains to the maximum amount of content that the content caching platform can cache at any particular moment. The Hepsia Control Panel’s user-friendly graphical interface will enable you to shut down or to restart any instance, to check exhaustive system logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For optimum results, you can use a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your website will load substantially faster, meaning more satisfied website visitors and potential customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish data caching platform is an essential part of the default service set that you’ll receive if you choose to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can configure it for any of your websites via our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but if you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the Internet sites that can use this platform simultaneously. As these two things aren’t linked to each other, you can use a few sites with the default amount of memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single web site. The Varnish caching platform works best when you assign a dedicated IP to the Internet sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you an easy way of restarting any instance. In addition, you’ll be able to clear the cached contents with only one single click.

Varnish in VPS Servers

The Varnish data caching platform is included by default with all VPS servers offered by our company as long as the virtual server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can optimize the performance of your websites with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the package, the more system memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a low-end plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you’ve got several different Internet sites, you will notice a serious reduction in the server load and a significantly better website load speed. The platform will have to work for a while while the users browse the web pages and as soon as the website content has been cached, you will notice the results. One of the pluses of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less pricey plan will do the exact same job as a more expensive one without the platform, so not only will your websites perform better, but you’ll also save a certain amount of money.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you want a powerful website hosting solution and you acquire one of the Linux dedicated servers that we offer, you’ll be able to use the Varnish data caching platform to enhance the work of your sites at no extra fee on the condition that the dedicated server is ordered with our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its intuitive interface will allow you to keep an eye on system processes, to clear the cache or to restart any instance with one single click of the mouse. The minimal amount of system memory that the caching platform can use to cache website content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for a huge selection of resource-heavy websites, so your server will be able to handle an enormous load while your website visitors are enjoying a seamless web browsing experience. Since your machine will come with several dedicated IPs, you will be able to use Varnish’s full potential.