Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, based on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to increase the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor accesses a page on a specific Internet site, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested content is served as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the website visitor opens and if any of them is opened once more, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The boost in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests significantly quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any content is updated in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone accesses them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish’s full potential and improve your websites’ loading speed regardless of the shared hosting plan that you have chosen and you can activate and set up the content caching platform with a few clicks of the mouse through the easy-to-use graphical interface offered by our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two separate things – how many websites will employ the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can use more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you have lots of content on a particular website and you draw many site visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will provide you with simple one-click buttons for turning off or restarting any instance, for erasing the cache associated with any Internet site and for seeing elaborate system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is included as standard with all semi-dedicated servers that we are offering and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any website that you host in your semi-dedicated server account. In case you are in need of more, you can increase the memory allowance. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same Upgrades section will allow you to activate more instances too, in case you want to use Varnish with multiple Internet sites. The two upgrades can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of one single busy website or run several different sites with the default memory allocation. You can take full advantage of Varnish if you use a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. Hepsia will give you full control over the platform and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you’ll be able to delete the cached files, to see a log or to restart an instance.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the workload balancing potential of Varnish with all our VPS servers if you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel. The data caching platform comes by default and the system memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache your website content is dependent upon the particular package that you’ve selected, but even with the lower-end packages, you will have at least several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal solely for data caching purposes. This amount is enough to boost the performance of numerous Internet sites. It will take a little time for you to see the results, since Varnish caches the content that website visitors browse, but after that you will notice the substantially less load on the virtual machine and the improved website loading speed. Varnish will permit you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server plan for Internet sites which would normally require a more pricey hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

When you want the most powerful website hosting solution and you buy any of the dedicated servers that we offer, you’ll be able to use the Varnish platform to improve the work of your Internet sites at no extra charge on the condition that the dedicated machine is ordered with our next-gen Hepsia Control Panel. Its user-friendly graphical interface will allow you to monitor system processes, to clear the cached contents or to reboot any instance with one single click. The minimal amount of memory that the Varnish caching platform can employ to cache content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for a large collection of resource-requiring sites, so your server will be able to deal with a huge load while your Internet site visitors are enjoying a smooth web browsing experience. As your dedicated server will include several different dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to make use of Varnish’s full capacity.