Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, based on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical machine and to increase the access speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor loads a page on a particular site, the browser request is processed by the web server and the requested data is returned as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor browses and if any of them is opened for a second time, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The performance improvement is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests substantially quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the users. In case any data is changed in the meantime, the cached pages will also be updated the next time somebody attempts to access them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

We offer Varnish as an optional upgrade with each and every Linux website hosting service and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your website hosting account using the Upgrades section in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one depends on the number of the websites that you’d like to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, indicates the maximum amount of content that the content caching platform can cache at any given moment. Hepsia’s time and effort saving graphical interface will enable you to deactivate or to restart any instance, to see comprehensive logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just one click. For optimum results, you can employ a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your site will load substantially faster, which means more happy site users and potential clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish caching platform is part of the standard service set that you’ll acquire when you decide to host your websites 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 the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the websites that can use this caching platform at the same time. Since these two things are not tied to each other, you can use a few sites with the default memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for a single Internet site. The Varnish caching platform performs best if you allocate a dedicated IP address to the Internet sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will give you a simple means of rebooting any instance. In addition, you’ll be able to delete the cached contents with just one single mouse click.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish in order to enhance the load speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server with us if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready for use at no extra fee, but you will also exert full control over it through Hepsia’s user-friendly interface. It will take only one click of the mouse to start or cancel an instance or to delete the cached files for any Internet site that is using Varnish and if you’re more knowledgeable, you can also see the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for website content caching purposes, so even if you host a large number of Internet sites on your server and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the improvement in their performance will be obvious. You’ll just have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever webpages the visitors load on their end. The platform performs best when the websites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers include three free-of-charge IP addresses, you will have all that you need.