Varnish is a website accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any website, sometimes even by 100 percent, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical machine and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Anytime a visitor loads a page on a specific website, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested data is delivered as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the web pages that the site visitor opens and if any of them is accessed once again, it is fetched by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The increase in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests substantially faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is edited in the meantime, the cached pages will also be updated the next time somebody opens them.
Varnish in Shared Web Hosting
Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared web hosting. You can add it to your web hosting account through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all shared hosting plans and you’ll get a rather simple-to-use graphical interface, which will grant you complete control over the data caching platform. Using one-click fast-access controls, you can reboot or terminate any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be enabled for a specific Internet site. You can also check an elaborate system log or erase the cache associated with any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your hosting plan, you will be able to select the total amount of memory that will be at your disposal for data caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for maximum performance, you can set a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. This will enable you to take full advantage of your sites and to have a lot of pleased visitors.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
All our semi-dedicated servers come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the web application accelerator tool and improve the speed of any site that you host on our platform. You’ll get 64 MB of memory exclusively for Varnish at no extra charge and you’ll be able to add an instance with no more than a few clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated packages. If you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal instantly. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide whether plenty of data will be cached for a single site or whether the memory will be used by different websites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to reboot or to deactivate any instance, to check the system log associated with it or to clear the cached data using single-click buttons. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can set a dedicated IP for the sites that will use it.
Varnish in VPS Servers
The Varnish platform comes by default with each of the VPS servers offered by our company given that the virtual server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can enhance the overall performance of your websites with just 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 platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you run a handful of websites, you will notice a considerable decrease in the server load and a significantly faster web page load speed. The Varnish platform will need to work for a little while as the visitors browse the web pages and once the site content has been cached, you’ll see the effects. One of the advantages of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less costly Virtual Private Server package will accomplish the very same job as a more expensive one without the caching platform, so not only will your sites work significantly better, but you will also save some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
When you want a powerful hosting solution and you get any of the dedicated servers offered by our company, you’ll be able to use the Varnish platform to optimize the overall performance of your websites at no extra charge on the condition that the server is ordered with our avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel. Its intuitive graphical interface will enable you to monitor platform processes, to clear the cached data or to reboot any instance with one click of the mouse. The minimal amount of memory that the platform can use to cache Internet site content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for a huge collection of large-scale sites, so your server will be able to cope with a massive load while your visitors are enjoying a seamless browsing experience. Since your dedicated server will include several different dedicated IPs, you will be able to use Varnish’s maximum capacity.