Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any site, at times even by 100%, 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 server and to improve the browsing speed for the site visitors. Anytime a visitor accesses a page on a certain Internet site, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested data is served as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor browses and in case any of them is loaded once again, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance increase comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests considerably faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. If any content is changed in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody tries to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can make use of Varnish’s potential and optimize the load speed of your websites irrespective of the shared hosting package that you have chosen and you can add and configure the data caching platform with several clicks of the mouse from the simple-to-work-with interface offered by our avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel. During the procedure, you’ll be able to choose two different things – how many Internet sites will use the Varnish platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 MB and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and the other way around. If you have plenty of content on a certain Internet site and you gain plenty of website visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will offer you easy one-click controls for cancelling or rebooting any instance, for erasing the cache for each website and for checking elaborate system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish data caching platform is an essential part of the default set of services that you will obtain when you choose to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your sites via our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. The default amount of system memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache data 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 simultaneously. Since these two things aren’t bound to each other, you can use a couple of sites with the default memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single website. The Varnish platform works best when you use a dedicated IP address for the sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you a simple way of restarting any instance. On top of that, you will be able to delete the cached data with just one single click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with any of our VPS hosting services if you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The platform is offered by default and the memory that it’ll be able to use to cache your website content is dependent upon the specific VPS plan that you have selected, but even with the less powerful plans, you’ll have no less than several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal only for content caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to enhance the overall performance of numerous websites. It will take a little time for you to observe the results, since the Varnish platform caches the content that site visitors access, but soon after that you will notice the significantly lowered load on the machine and the increased Internet site browsing speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to make use of a less powerful package for Internet sites that would typically need a more costly web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can use Varnish in order to accelerate the loading speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the platform ready for use at no additional fee, but you will also have full control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-use GUI. It will take only one click of the mouse to start or delete an instance or to clear the cache associated with any Internet site that is using Varnish and in case you’re more experienced, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than three gigabytes of system memory for website content caching purposes, so even in case you host a vast number of sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the platform, the difference in their overall performance will be distinguishable. You’ll simply need to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever content the visitors access on their end. The Varnish platform performs best when the websites use a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers come with 3 charge-free IPs, you will have everything you need.