Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, as it can increase the load speed of any site, sometimes even by 100 percent, depending on the content. This tool is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to enhance the browsing speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor opens a page on a certain Internet site, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested information is served as a response. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the pages that the visitor browses and if any of them is accessed once more, it’s 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 significantly faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any data is modified meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody accesses them.

Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting

Our company offers Varnish as an optional upgrade with each cloud web hosting and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your shared website hosting account using the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two separate features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one pertains to the number of the websites that you’d like to use Varnish for and the second one, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, pertains to the total amount of data that the data caching platform can cache at any particular moment. The Hepsia Control Panel’s user-friendly graphical interface will enable you to turn off or to reboot any instance, to check in-depth logs or to clear the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For optimum results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your site will open tremendously faster, meaning more satisfied website users and potential clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish content caching platform is included in the standard service set that you’ll obtain if you choose to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your websites through our next-generation Hepsia Control Panel. The default memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount of memory 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 simultaneously. As these two things are not linked to each other, you can use a couple of 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 web site. Varnish performs best when you get a dedicated IP for the websites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you a simple way of restarting any instance. In addition, you will be able to clear the cached contents with only one click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We offer Varnish with all Hepsia-managed VPS servers, so if you order a server with this hosting Control Panel, you will be able to make the most of the caching platform at no extra cost. The Varnish platform can utilize different amounts of system memory for data caching purposes depending on the specific sever setup that you’ve selected during the order process, but at any rate, this amount won’t be less than several hundred megabytes. This is more than enough to improve the performance of several frequently visited sites, so the faster page browsing speeds and the reduced load on the VPS server will be perceptible. The result may not be detectable immediately, since Varnish will need a certain amount of time to cache the website content that people browse, but shortly after you activate it, you will observe its full capacity. This platform will permit you to use a less powerful server and to give less cash to get the same performance you’d get with a more powerful machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated servers which are ordered with the in-house developed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the server. The Varnish platform can be configured and managed without any effort via Hepsia’s time and effort saving graphical interface and, with no more than one single click, you can view an exhaustive system log, add or restart an instance, delete the cache for any site and much more. Shortly after you set up Varnish for a particular domain or subdomain, it will start caching the pages requested by your website visitors and as soon as it has cached enough content, you will witness a considerably better site performance as well as a reduced load on your dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the platform for load distribution purposes even if you run multiple Internet sites on the server.