Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, as it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, based on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to decrease the overall load on the server and to improve the access speed for the website visitors. Each time a visitor accesses a page on a given website, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested info is delivered as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the pages that the site visitor opens and if any of them is loaded for a second time, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The improvement in the overall performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests tremendously faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. If any data is edited in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone attempts to access them.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks through your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our shared packages and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be available for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they aren’t directly linked to each other, so you can choose whether you want plenty of memory for one large website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish caching platform if the sites use a dedicated IP. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can quickly start/restart/cancel an instance, clear the cached content independently for each site which uses the Varnish platform or view an in-depth system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we’re offering will allow you to use Varnish as soon as your brand-new semi-dedicated account has been activated, as the content caching platform is offered by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can make use of this workload distribution software once your site has been published to the web. In case you need more system memory, you can order 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server straight away. You can also increase the number of the sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you will enjoy more flexibility. The Varnish platform will immensely lower the load on the semi-dedicated machine that your websites produce, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform effortlessly through the Control Panel using fast-access controls. You’ll be able to start/discontinue any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached files for any of your Internet sites or to check system log files.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

The Varnish data caching platform is included by default with all VPS hosting offered by us as long as the virtual server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can enhance the performance of your sites with only a few clicks. The more powerful the package, the more memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a lower-end package, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you have several different Internet sites, you will notice a serious decrease in the server load and a significantly better website load speed. The Varnish caching platform will need to work for a while as the users navigate the pages and once the site content has been cached, you will perceive the result. One of the advantages of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less pricey VPS plan will do the same job as a more costly one without the platform, so not only will your websites perform better, but you will also save a certain amount of cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you will acquire the Varnish content caching platform at no additional fee and you will have full control over it via an amazingly time and effort saving graphical interface – you’ll be able to start, to stop or to reboot an instance, to browse a comprehensive log, to clear the cached data for any site and much more. Varnish will have several GB of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you’ve got regularly visited websites with an enormous number of visitors, you’ll notice the considerably faster site loading times and the reduced load on the dedicated server. This will happen shortly after you start using the Varnish platform, since it will need some time to cache the pages that people browse. You can get the most out of the platform’s capacity in case the websites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your dedicated server comes with a couple of IPs by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of the monthly charge for the machine itself.