Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by 100 percent, based on the content. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the physical server and to enhance the browsing speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a specific site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested content is sent as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the website visitor browses and in case any of them is opened again, it’s served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The boost in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests tremendously quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. In case any content is modified in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone opens them.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites under a shared web hosting account with our company, you will be able to add Varnish with a couple of mouse clicks through your hosting Control Panel. The platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared web hosting packages and you can select how many sites will use it and the maximum storage space that will be available for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can choose if you need lots of memory for one single large-scale site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of Varnish if the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/reboot/discontinue an instance, delete the cached data independently for each website which uses Varnish or see an exhaustive log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting services offered by our company will permit you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated server account is active, since the data caching platform comes by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can take advantage of this workload distribution software as soon as your website has been built. If you need more memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine momentarily. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly bound to the amount of memory that you use, which suggests that you’ll enjoy more versatility. The Varnish platform will seriously reduce the load on the server that your websites cause, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish without effort via your Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/discontinue any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached content associated with any of your sites or to view system log files.

Varnish in VPS Web Hosting

You can use the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with all our Linux VPS web hosting services in case you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is offered by default and the system memory that it will be able to utilize to cache your site content is dependent upon the specific VPS plan that you’ve selected, but even with the less powerful packages, you’ll have no less than several hundred MB of memory at your disposal solely for data caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to enhance the work of multiple Internet sites. It will take some time for you to observe the results, as the Varnish platform caches the content that site visitors browse, but soon thereafter you’ll notice the considerably reduced load on the VPS server and the increased site load speed. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to make use of a lower-end package for Internet sites that would normally need a more expensive hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

All Linux dedicated servers hosting that are ordered with the tailor-made Hepsia website hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the machine. The Varnish content caching platform can be configured and administered without effort through the Hepsia Control Panel’s intuitive GUI and, with no more than one single mouse click, you can check an in-depth system log, create or restart an instance, clear the cached content for any website and much more. Soon after you configure the Varnish platform for a certain domain or sub-domain, it will begin caching the webpages loaded by the site visitors and once it has cached enough content, you’ll perceive a considerably better website performance plus a reduced load on your server. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload balancing purposes even if you run a huge number of Internet sites on the machine.