Varnish is a web app accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, as it can increase the loading speed of any site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical server and to improve the access speed for the website visitors. Each time a visitor loads a page on a specific Internet site, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested content is served as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed for a second time, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance boost comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests tremendously quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any data is changed in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody tries to open them.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each and every Linux shared web hosting service and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your shared website hosting account using the Upgrades section in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re 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 want to employ Varnish for and the second one, which comes in increments of 32 megabytes, pertains to the total amount of content that the content caching platform can store at any given moment. The Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-use interface will allow you to switch off or to reboot any instance, to view in-depth system logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just a click. For optimum results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will open tremendously faster, meaning more pleased visitors and prospective clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish caching platform is an essential part of the standard service set that you will get when you decide to host your Internet sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your websites through our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that Varnish can use to cache content is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the websites that can use this platform simultaneously. Since these two things aren’t tied to each other, you can use several sites with the default amount of memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single website. The Varnish caching platform works best when you set a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with a simple way of rebooting any instance. Furthermore, you will be able to clear the cached data with only one click.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish with any of our virtual private server packages at no additional fee, as the data caching platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The sole requirement is that the Virtual Private Server must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with only a few mouse clicks. Each VPS plan offers a different amount of memory for content caching purposes, but you’ll have no less than several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for multiple traffic-consuming Internet sites. Soon after you set up the Varnish platform, it’ll begin caching the content that your site visitors access, so you’ll notice the tremendously faster site loading speeds and the less load on your VPS server in no time. Varnish will allow you to use a less costly virtual machine, as you won’t need that much power to guarantee the proper operation of your sites even if you run large Internet sites with many visitors. Maximum results are accomplished if the sites which use the Varnish platform also use a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll get the Varnish content caching platform at no additional cost and you will have full control over it through a rather easy-to-navigate graphical interface – you will be able to start, to remove or to reboot an instance, to browse a detailed log, to clear the cached content for any Internet site and much more. The Varnish caching platform will have several gigabytes of memory at its disposal, so even if you have resource-requiring websites with plenty of visitors, you’ll notice the significantly faster page load times and the decreased load on the dedicated server. This will happen soon after you start using Varnish, since it will require some time to cache the pages that users access. You can make the most of the platform’s capability if the websites that are using it also use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that your server includes a few IPs by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of your monthly fee for the server itself.