Varnish is a website accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the loading speed of any site, at times even by one hundred percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the physical server and to enhance the browsing speed for the website visitors. Each time a visitor opens a page on a particular Internet site, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested data is returned as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor browses and if any of them is loaded once again, it is fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests tremendously quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. In case any data is edited meanwhile, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone attempts to access them.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you will be able to add Varnish with several clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared hosting plans and you can select the number of the websites that will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be used for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they’re not tied directly to each other, so you can decide if you need a lot of memory for a single large-scale site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of Varnish if the websites use a dedicated IP. With the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/deactivate an instance, clear the cached data independently for each site that uses Varnish or see a detailed log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish content caching platform is an essential part of the standard service set that you’ll acquire in case you choose to host your websites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your sites through our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. The default amount of memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this 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 at the same time. As these two features are not linked to each other, you can use several websites with the default memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for a single site. The Varnish caching platform works best if you allocate a dedicated IP to the sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you an easy means of rebooting any instance. On top of that, you will be able to clear the cached content with just one click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the workload balancing potential of Varnish with each of our VPS plans if you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform is offered by default and the memory that it will be able to use to cache your site content is dependent upon the particular VPS plan that you have picked, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have at least several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal solely for data caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to optimize the overall performance of multiple sites. It will take some time for you to detect the results, as Varnish caches the content that visitors access, but shortly thereafter you’ll notice the considerably less load on the virtual machine and the enhanced site load speed. The Varnish platform will permit you to make use of a lower-end package for sites that would usually need a more high-priced hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you need the most powerful web hosting solution and you acquire one of the dedicated web hosting plans that we’re offering, you’ll be able to use the Varnish caching platform to improve the work of your Internet sites at no additional charge on the condition that the server is ordered with our innovative Hepsia Control Panel. Its simple-to-work-with GUI will enable you to keep an eye on platform processes, to clear the cache or to restart any instance with one click. The smallest amount of system memory that Varnish can employ to cache Internet site content is 3 GB, which is more than enough for an enormous selection of large-sized websites, so your dedicated server will be able to handle a colossal load while your visitors are having a seamless web browsing experience. As your machine will come with several different dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to make use of Varnish’s maximum potential.