Varnish is a web app accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any website, at times even by 100 percent, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall server load and to boost the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor loads a page on a given site, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested info is served as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the site visitor browses and if any of them is opened for a second time, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests tremendously faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any data is changed meanwhile, the cached pages will also be updated the next time someone tries to access them.
Varnish in Website Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our website hosting packages. You can add it to your website hosting account from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is available with all shared web hosting plans and you will get a quite user-friendly interface, which will grant you full control over the data caching system. Using one-click fast-access buttons, you can reboot or shut down any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be activated for a specific Internet site. You can also view an in-depth system log file or clear the cache associated with any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting package, you’ll 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 order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for optimal performance, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that will use Varnish. This will permit you to take full advantage of your sites and to have lots of happy users.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages offered by us will permit you to use Varnish once your brand-new account has been set up, since the caching platform is offered by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can use this load distribution software as soon as your site has been published online. In case you’re in need of more system memory, you can order 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine right away. You can also increase the number of the sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you will have more flexibility. The caching platform will considerably decrease the load on the machine caused by your websites, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish caching platform effortlessly from your Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You will be able to start/disable any of the instances that you have, to clear the cache associated with any of your Internet sites or to see system log files.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
The Varnish data caching platform comes by default with all VPS hosting packages that we offer given that the server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can optimize the overall performance of your websites with only a few clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a low-end package, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you manage several different websites, you’ll notice a substantial reduction in the overall server load and a considerably better web page load speed. The Varnish caching platform will have to work for a little while as the visitors browse the site and as soon as the content has been cached, you will distinguish the effect. One of the upsides of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less costly VPS package will do the very same job as a more costly one without the platform, so not only will your Internet sites work better, but you’ll also save some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
You can use Varnish to optimize the speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready for use at no extra fee, but you’ll also exert full control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-use graphical interface. It’ll take just one click to start or delete an instance or to clear the cached files for any website that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you’re more trained, you can also browse the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of virtual memory for website content caching purposes, so even in case you host plenty of Internet sites on your dedicated server and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be perceivable. You’ll simply have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever content the website visitors open on their end. The Varnish platform performs best when the sites use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that our servers come with three free-of-cost IPs, you will have all that you need.