Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any site, at times even by 100 percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical server and to accelerate the browsing speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor loads a page on a certain site, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested info is returned as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the site visitor browses and if any of them is opened for a second time, it is fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests substantially quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. If any data is changed meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time somebody opens them.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with all our Linux shared web hosting. You can add it to your website hosting account via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with all shared hosting plans and you’ll get a truly user-friendly GUI, which will grant you full control over the caching platform. Using 1-click fast-access buttons, you can reboot or disable any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer work for a specific website. You can also check a detailed log file or erase the cache associated with any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your hosting plan, you will be able to select the maximum amount of memory that will be available to you for caching purposes and how many sites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for optimum performance, you can set a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. This will enable you to take full advantage of your sites and to have numerous pleased website visitors.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish caching platform is included in the standard service set that you will get in case you decide to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can configure it for any of your sites through our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this memory 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 caching platform simultaneously. Since these two features are not tied to each other, you can use a few websites with the default memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for a single web site. The Varnish platform performs best when you allocate a dedicated IP to the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will give you an easy means of rebooting any instance. In addition, you’ll be able to delete the cached contents with just one single click.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with each of our Linux VPS hosting if you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform is offered by default and the memory that it will be able to utilize to cache the content of your sites is dependent on the specific VPS package that you’ve selected, but even with the less powerful plans, you will have no less than several hundred MB of memory at your disposal solely for content caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to enhance the work of multiple sites. It’ll take some time for you to notice the effects, since Varnish caches the content that visitors request, but after that you will notice the considerably reduced load on the machine and the increased Internet site load speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to use a lower-end VPS package for websites which would usually require a more pricey web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can use Varnish to increase the speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no extra charge, but you’ll also have total control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with interface. It will take only a click to start or shut down an instance or to clear the cached content associated with any website that’s using Varnish and if you are more tech-savvy, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for data caching purposes, so even if you run multiple Internet sites on your machine and they all use the caching platform, the difference in their performance will be evident. You will only have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever pages the site visitors access on their end. The platform works best when the websites use a dedicated IP, but since our dedicated servers include 3 cost-free IPs, you will have all that you need.