Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, because it can increase the load speed of any website, sometimes even by one hundred percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the server and to increase the browsing speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a given website, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested info is delivered as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the pages that the website visitor browses and if any of them is opened once again, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests significantly quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any data is changed meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone tries to access them.
Varnish in Website Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each website hosting and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your shared web hosting account via the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. There are two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. The first one depends on the number of the Internet sites that you wish to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which comes in increments of 32 megabytes, refers to the total amount of data that the data caching platform can store at any given moment. Hepsia’s easy-to-use interface will enable you to cancel or to restart any instance, to see in-depth system logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For optimum results, you can use a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your site will load much faster, which means more happy visitors and potential clients.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Varnish content caching platform is an essential part of the default set of services that you will acquire when you decide to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your Internet sites through our avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel. The default amount of memory that Varnish can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the sites that can use this platform at the same time. Since these two things aren’t bound to each other, you can use a few Internet 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 Internet site. Varnish performs best when you assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you an easy way of rebooting any instance. Furthermore, you will be able to delete the cached data with only one mouse click.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
You can take full advantage of the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with each of our Linux VPS hosting if you select Hepsia as your Control Panel. The data caching platform is offered by default and the memory that it’ll be able to use to cache the content of your websites is dependent upon the given VPS package that you’ve selected, but even with the lower-end plans, you will have no less than several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal exclusively for data caching purposes. This amount is enough to optimize the work of numerous Internet sites. It’ll take some time for you to observe the results, as Varnish caches the content that website visitors open, but shortly thereafter you’ll notice the considerably lowered load on the virtual server and the increased website browsing speed. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server plan for websites which would normally require a more costly web hosting service.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
You can use Varnish in order to speed up any website that is hosted on a dedicated server with our company if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready for use at no additional cost, but you’ll also exert total control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with graphical interface. It’ll take just a click to start or shut down an instance or to clear the cache associated with any site that’s using Varnish and if you’re more proficient, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of memory for content caching purposes, so even if you run many websites on your dedicated server and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be perceivable. You’ll just need to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the website visitors open on their end. The Varnish platform performs best when the websites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers come with three free-of-charge IPs, you will have everything you need.