Varnish is a website accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by 100%, based on the content itself. This tool is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical server and to accelerate the browsing speed for the website visitors. Anytime a visitor accesses a page on a specific Internet site, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested info is served as a reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed again, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The increase in the overall 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. If any data is changed meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone tries to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

We offer Varnish as an optional upgrade with each Linux shared package and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your website hosting account using the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two separate things that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that you’d like to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which is offered in increments of 32 MB, displays the maximum amount of content that the content caching platform can store at any given moment. The Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-use GUI will permit you to switch off or to reboot any instance, to check elaborate logs or to clear the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For optimal results, you can employ a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your website will load significantly faster, which means more satisfied website visitors and potential customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish data caching platform is an essential part of the standard service set that you’ll get if you decide to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your Internet sites through our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of memory that Varnish can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. 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 bound to each other, you can use a few Internet sites with the default memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single Internet site. Varnish works best if you assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with an easy means of restarting any instance. On top of that, you’ll be able to delete the cached contents with just one mouse click.

Varnish in VPS Web Hosting

You can use Varnish with all our virtual private server plans at no extra charge, since the content caching platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The one and only precondition is that the server must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you will be able to set up Varnish for any of your sites with only a couple of mouse clicks. Each plan offers a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you will get no less than several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for multiple resource-absorbing websites. Soon after you set up Varnish, it will start caching the content that your visitors request, so you’ll notice the significantly better site load speeds and the reduced load on your Virtual Private Server very soon. The Varnish platform will allow you to use a less pricey virtual machine, as you will not require that much power to warrant the uninterrupted operation of your websites even if you manage larger sites with a lot of visitors. Maximum results are accomplished if the websites which use Varnish also use a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

All Linux dedicated servers hosting packages which are ordered with the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated server. The Varnish platform can be enabled and managed with no effort via the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-navigate interface and, with no more than one single click, you can browse a detailed system log, create or reboot an instance, clear the cached files for any Internet site and much more. Soon after you enable the Varnish platform for a given domain or subdomain, it will start caching the pages opened by your site visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you will witness a substantially faster website performance as well as a reduced load on the dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 GB, you will be able to use the software platform for load distribution purposes even if you run a huge number of sites on the server.