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 100 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 load on the physical server and to accelerate the access speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor opens a page on a certain Internet site, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested info 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’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests significantly quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. If any content is updated meanwhile, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody attempts to access them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a website hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks via your Control Panel. The data caching platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared hosting packages and you can select how many sites will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can decide if you want lots of memory for one large-scale site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/cancel an instance, clear the cached files independently for each site that employs Varnish or check an exhaustive log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish data caching platform is an essential part of the standard set of services that you will acquire if you choose to host your websites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can enable it for any of your sites through our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of system memory that Varnish can use to cache content 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, in other words – the number of the Internet sites that can use this platform at the same time. As these two features are not linked to each other, you can use a couple of sites with the default amount of memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single website. The Varnish platform performs best if you assign a dedicated IP address to the websites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you an easy means of restarting any instance. On top of that, you’ll be able to clear the cached contents with only one single click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We offer Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped Linux VPS web hosting plans, so if you order a VPS with this Control Panel, you’ll be able to make full use of the data caching platform at no additional charge. Varnish can utilize different amounts of system memory for data caching purposes based on the particular sever setup that you have chosen during the registration process, but at any rate, this amount won’t be less than several hundred megabytes. This is quite enough to boost the performance of several different traffic-heavy websites, so the better page load speeds and the lowered load on the server will be perceivable. The result may not be observable immediately, as Varnish will require some time to cache the website content that users open, but shortly after you activate it, you’ll perceive its full capacity. This caching platform will allow you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server and to give less cash to get the very same performance you’d get with a more powerful virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish to accelerate any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the platform ready to be used at no extra cost, but you’ll also exert full control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-navigate GUI. It’ll take only one click of the mouse to start or terminate an instance or to clear the cached content for any site that’s using Varnish and if you are more experienced, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 GB of system memory for content caching purposes, so even if you run lots of websites on your dedicated server and they all use the platform, the difference in their performance will be apparent. You’ll just have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever pages the site visitors open on their end. The Varnish platform performs best when the Internet sites use a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that our servers include 3 charge-free IPs, you will have everything you need.