Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, because it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by 100%, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall server load and to enhance the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor loads a page on a specific website, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested information is served as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the web pages that the site visitor opens and if any of them is loaded again, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance boost comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests substantially faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. In case any data is edited meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone tries to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

In case you host your sites under a shared hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with several mouse clicks through your Control Panel. The data caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our plans and you can select how many websites will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they aren’t directly linked to each other, so you can decide whether you need plenty of memory for a single large website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can use the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/shut down an instance, clear the cached data individually for each site which employs Varnish or see an elaborate system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated servers offered by us will allow you to employ Varnish once your brand-new account has been created, as the data caching platform is offered by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can take advantage of this load balancing software once your website has been launched online. If you are in need of more system memory, you can get 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server straight away. You can also increase the number of the websites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of system memory that you use, which means that you will enjoy more freedom. The Varnish caching platform will substantially reduce the load on the machine generated by your sites, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish caching platform without effort through the Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/disable any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached files associated with any of your websites or to check system logs.

Varnish in VPS Servers

The Varnish caching platform is included by default with each of the Linux VPS servers offered by us on the condition that the VPS server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can optimize the performance of your sites with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a less powerful plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you have a number of Internet sites, you will notice a substantial reduction in the server load and a tremendously better site loading speed. The Varnish platform will need to work for a while while the visitors navigate the site and once the website content has been cached, you’ll distinguish the results. One of the upsides of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less pricey VPS plan will do the exact same job as a more pricey one without the caching platform, so not only will your sites perform better, but you’ll also spare some money.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you want the most powerful web hosting solution and you get any of the Linux dedicated service offered by us, you can use the Varnish platform to boost the work of your sites at no extra cost on the condition that the server is ordered with our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. Its simple-to-use graphical interface will enable you to monitor system processes, to delete the cached content or to restart any instance with one single mouse click. The minimum amount of system memory that Varnish can use to cache content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for an immense number of resource-heavy sites, so your server will be able to deal with an immense system load while your Internet site visitors are enjoying a seamless web browsing experience. As your machine will come with a number of dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to make use of Varnish’s full capacity.