Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by 100%, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical server and to enhance the browsing speed for the site visitors. Anytime a visitor loads a page on a given site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested data is sent as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the website visitor opens and in case any of them is opened once again, it is served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The improvement in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests significantly faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. In case any data is updated in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone opens them.

Varnish in Web Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our Linux web hosting services. You can add it to your hosting account from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is available with all shared packages and you’ll get an amazingly user-friendly interface, which will grant you full control over the content caching platform. Using 1-click quick-access buttons, you can reboot or deactivate any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be activated for a specific website. You can also view an elaborate log file or clear the cache for any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your shared web hosting package, you will be able to select the total amount of memory that will be available to you for content caching purposes and how many sites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for optimal performance, you can set a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your websites and to have a lot of pleased website users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All our Linux semi-dedicated services come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the website accelerator and boost the load speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of memory dedicated to the Varnish accelerator at no additional cost and you’ll be able to create an instance with no more than a couple of clicks via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server packages. In case you want more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal straight away. You can also order more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide whether lots of data will be cached for a single site or if the memory will be used by different sites. Hepsia will enable you to reboot or to delete any instance, to check the system log associated with it or to delete the cached content using 1-click controls. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the sites that will employ it.

Varnish in VPS

The Varnish caching platform comes by default with all Linux VPS services that we offer given that the virtual server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can improve the performance of your websites with only a few clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the package, the more memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a lower-end plan, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you’ve got several websites, you’ll notice an enormous reduction in the server load and a much faster web page loading speed. The Varnish caching platform will have to work for a while as the users navigate the site and once the content has been cached, you’ll see the result. One of the upsides of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less costly plan will do the same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your websites work much better, but you will also save some cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll acquire Varnish at no extra cost and you’ll have full control over it via a rather simple-to-work-with GUI – you will be able to start, to cancel or to reboot an instance, to see a detailed log, to delete the cached content associated with any Internet site and much more. Varnish will have several GB of system memory at its disposal, so even if you run resource-demanding Internet sites with a huge number of visitors, you will notice the substantially faster website load speeds and the lowered load on your server. This will become a fact shortly after you begin using Varnish, since it will require some time to cache the pages that visitors request. You can get the most out of the platform’s capabilities in case the websites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your dedicated server comes with a few IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the server itself.