Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, because it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the server and to accelerate the access speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a given Internet site, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested data is served as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the web pages that the website visitor opens and if any of them is opened once more, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests tremendously faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. In case any data is modified in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone tries to open them.

Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud web hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks from your Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our shared plans and you can select how many websites will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be available for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they are not directly tied to each other, so you can decide whether you need lots of memory for one large-sized website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unlock the full potential of Varnish in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/cancel an instance, clear the cached content independently for each site which employs Varnish or view a detailed system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering will permit you to use Varnish once your brand new semi-dedicated account is active, since the content caching platform comes by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can make use of this workload distribution software once your website has been published online. In case you are in need of more memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server immediately. You can also increase the number of the websites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly linked to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll have more freedom. The platform will substantially decrease the server load that your sites generate, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish caching platform without effort through the Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access controls. You’ll be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached files for any of your Internet sites or to see system logs.

Varnish in VPS Web Hosting

We provide Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped Linux VPS web hosting, so if you obtain a VPS with this web hosting Control Panel, you will be able to make use of the data caching platform at no extra fee. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of memory for data caching purposes based on the specific sever setup that you’ve picked during the registration process, but at any rate, this amount will not be less than several hundred megabytes. This is more than enough to enhance the overall performance of a number of resource-absorbing Internet sites, so the better page load speeds and the lowered load on your VPS will be perceivable. The result may not be distinguishable straight away, since Varnish will need some time to cache the content that people browse, but soon after you set it up, you’ll witness its full potential. This caching platform will allow you to use a less powerful VPS and to pay less money to get the exact same performance you would get with a higher-end machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll acquire the Varnish content caching platform at no extra fee and you will have total control over it through an incredibly intuitive interface – you’ll be able to start, to terminate or to reboot an instance, to see a comprehensive system log, to clear the cached files for any Internet site and much more. The Varnish platform will have several GB of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you have resource-demanding sites with a large number of visitors, you’ll notice the considerably better site loading times and the lowered load on your dedicated server. This will become a fact shortly after you begin using the Varnish platform, since it will require some time to cache the site content that users request. You can make the most of the platform’s capacity if the sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP address, but since your dedicated server includes a couple of IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.