Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, as it can increase the load speed of any website, sometimes even by 100%, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall server load and to enhance the browsing speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor accesses a page on a given Internet site, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested data is returned as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the site visitor browses and in case any of them is loaded for a second time, it is served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The increase in the performance 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 website visitors. In case any content is changed meanwhile, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone opens them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

Our company offers Varnish as an optional upgrade with each shared hosting service and if you wish 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 number of instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the sites that you would like to use Varnish for and the second one, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, refers to the total amount of content that the content caching platform can store at any particular time. Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with GUI will enable you to remove or to reboot any instance, to view exhaustive logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just one click. For optimum results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will open considerably faster, meaning more happy site visitors and prospective clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated servers come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the web accelerator and increase the speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of memory dedicated to Varnish at no extra cost and you can create an instance with no more than a few clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server plans. If you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be available to you straight away. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide whether a lot of content will be cached for one website or if the memory will be used by different Internet sites. Hepsia will permit you to reboot or to delete any instance, to check the system log file for it or to clear the cached files using single-click controls. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can set a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with each of our Linux VPS hosting service in case you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes by default and the system memory that it will be able to utilize to cache your site content is dependent upon the particular Virtual Private Server package that you have chosen, but even with the less powerful plans, you will have at least several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal exclusively for data caching purposes. This amount is sufficient enough to boost the performance of multiple Internet sites. It’ll take a little time for you to observe the results, since Varnish caches the content that website visitors browse, but soon thereafter you’ll notice the significantly lowered load on your Virtual Private Server and the accelerated Internet site load speed. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server plan for websites which would typically require a more pricey web hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you need the most powerful website hosting solution and you order any of the dedicated service that we offer, you will be able to use the Varnish data caching platform to improve the overall performance of your Internet sites at no extra charge on the condition that the dedicated machine is ordered with our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its user-friendly graphical interface will permit you to monitor system processes, to delete the cached data or to reboot any instance with one single click. The smallest amount of memory that Varnish can employ to cache website content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for a large number of frequently visited websites, so your server will be able to handle an enormous system load while your website visitors are having a smooth web browsing experience. Since your server will come with several different dedicated IP addresses, you’ll be able to make use of Varnish’s full capacity.