Varnish is a website accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any website, sometimes even by 100 percent, depending on the content. 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 improve the browsing speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor loads a page on a certain site, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested information is served as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor browses and if any of them is opened for a second time, it’s served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance boost comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests considerably faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. If any data is changed meanwhile, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone tries to open them.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each of our shared hosting. You can add it to your hosting account via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with all shared plans and you will get a pretty easy-to-use graphical interface, which will grant you complete control over the content caching platform. Using 1-click quick-access controls, you can reboot or cancel any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer work for a particular Internet site. You can also see a detailed system log or erase the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your shared web hosting package, you will be able to select the total amount of system memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for optimum performance, you can get a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to get the most out of your websites and to have many satisfied site visitors.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Varnish caching platform is included in the standard service set that you’ll receive if you decide to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your Internet sites through our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the sites that can use this caching platform at the same time. Since these two features aren’t tied to each other, you can use a couple of Internet sites with the default memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single web site. Varnish works best when you use a dedicated IP for the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will give you an easy way of rebooting any instance. Also, you’ll be able to clear the cached contents with only one single click.
Varnish in VPS Servers
You can take advantage of Varnish with all our VPS server plans at no extra fee, since the data caching platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The sole requirement is that the server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you will be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with only a couple of clicks. Each VPS package offers a different amount of system memory for content caching purposes, but you will have no less than several hundred MB, which is sufficient enough even for multiple traffic-intensive Internet sites. Soon after you set up the Varnish platform, it’ll begin caching the content that your visitors request, so you’ll notice the much faster website load times and the less load on your Virtual Private Server in no time. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to use a less costly Virtual Private Server, as you will not require that many resources to sustain the proper operation of your sites even if you’ve got resource-requiring websites with plenty of visitors. Optimum results are achieved if the sites that use the Varnish caching platform also use a dedicated IP address.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
All Linux dedicated web hosting plans which are ordered with the tailor-made Hepsia website hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the server. The Varnish platform can be set up and administered without efforts from Hepsia’s simple-to-navigate GUI and, with no more than one single click, you can check an exhaustive system log, add or restart an instance, clear the cached files for any website and much more. Soon after you enable Varnish for a certain domain or sub-domain, it will start caching the webpages opened by the website visitors and as soon as it has cached enough content, you will witness a substantially faster site performance in addition to a reduced load. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the platform for workload distribution purposes even if you run multiple Internet sites on the dedicated server.