Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, as 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 reduce the overall server load and to improve the access speed for the website visitors. Anytime a visitor opens a page on a specific Internet site, the browser request is processed by the web server and the requested information is sent as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the web pages that the site visitor opens and if any of them is accessed once more, it is served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance improvement comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests tremendously faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is updated meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time somebody tries to access them.

Varnish in Web Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish’s full potential and enhance your websites’ loading speed regardless of the web hosting plan that you have chosen and you can add and set up the content caching platform with a few mouse clicks through the simple-to-work-with graphical interface offered by our advanced Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be able to select two separate things – how many websites will use the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can add more instances and less memory and the other way around. If you have plenty of content on a given site and you get plenty of website visitors, more memory will guarantee you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will offer you simple 1-click controls for shutting down or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with any site and for seeing elaborate system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated packages that we offer will allow you to employ Varnish once your brand new semi-dedicated account has been activated, since the caching platform is offered by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can make use of this load balancing software once your site has been published to the web. If you are in need of more system memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server momentarily. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not bound directly to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you will have more flexibility. The platform will enormously lower the load on the machine caused by your sites, so your visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You will be able to manage Varnish effortlessly via the Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You will be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you have, to clear the cached data associated with any of your sites or to see system logs.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you will get the Varnish data caching platform at no additional fee and you’ll have full control over it through a truly easy-to-work-with interface – you will be able to start, to discontinue or to restart an instance, to browse an elaborate system log, to clear the cached files associated with any site and much, much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of memory at its disposal, so even if you host resource-hungry Internet sites with a large number of visitors, you will notice the much faster website load times and the decreased load on your server. This will become a fact soon after you begin using the Varnish platform, since it will require a certain amount of time to cache the site content that visitors open. You can make the most of the platform’s capacity in case the websites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that your server comes with a couple of IP addresses by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly fee for the machine itself.