Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, as it can increase the load speed of any site, sometimes even by 100 percent, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical server and to increase the access speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a particular Internet site, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested information is served as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor browses and if any of them is opened once more, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance boost is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests considerably faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any data is changed in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone accesses them.

Varnish in Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each and every hosting and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your shared website hosting account using the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the websites that you’d like to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is offered in increments of 32 MB, pertains to the maximum amount of data that the data caching platform can cache at any particular moment. The Hepsia Control Panel’s time and effort saving graphical interface will allow you to delete or to reboot any instance, to check exhaustive system logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For maximum results, you can use a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will open much faster, meaning more happy website users and potential clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated servers include Varnish by default, so you can use the web application accelerator and optimize the loading speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 MB of system memory particularly for Varnish at no additional fee and you can create an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server 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 straight away. You can also add more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide whether a lot of data will be cached for a single website or whether the memory will be utilized by several Internet sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to reboot or to deactivate any instance, to view the system log for it or to clear the cached data using one-click buttons. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can get a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with all our VPS servers when you pick Hepsia as your Control Panel. The platform is offered by default and the memory that it will be able to utilize to cache the content of your sites depends on the particular VPS plan that you’ve chosen, but even with the less powerful plans, you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal solely for caching purposes. This amount is enough to optimize the overall performance of multiple websites. It’ll take a little time for you to detect the effects, since Varnish caches the content that visitors request, but shortly thereafter you’ll notice the substantially reduced load on the machine and the enhanced site load speed. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to make use of a less powerful Virtual Private Server plan for websites which would typically require a more costly web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated servers which are ordered with the custom-developed Hepsia web hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated machine. The Varnish caching platform can be activated and administered with ease from Hepsia’s easy-to-use GUI and, with no more than one mouse click, you can browse a detailed log, create or restart an instance, delete the cached data associated with any website and much more. Soon after you activate the Varnish platform for a specific domain or sub-domain, it will start caching the webpages requested by the visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you’ll observe a substantially better site performance in addition to a lowered load on the dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at three gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for workload balancing purposes even if you run plenty of sites on your server.