Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, at times even by 100 percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical machine and to accelerate the browsing speed for the site visitors. Whenever a visitor accesses a page on a given Internet site, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested information is sent as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the site visitor opens and in case any of them is opened once more, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests tremendously faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any data is edited meanwhile, the cached webpages will also be updated the next time somebody tries to open them.
Varnish in Cloud Hosting
Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with all our cloud hosting. You can add it to your web hosting account from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared plans and you will get a rather simple-to-use GUI, which will grant you complete control over the content caching system. Using 1-click quick-access controls, you can reboot or disable any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be activated for a particular Internet site. You can also see an exhaustive system log or delete the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting package, you’ll be able to choose the maximum amount of memory that will be available to you for caching purposes and how many sites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for optimal performance, you can set a dedicated IP for the sites that will use Varnish. This will enable you to take full advantage of your websites and to have a lot of happy site users.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
All our Linux semi-dedicated servers include Varnish by default, so you can take advantage of the web application accelerator tool and optimize the loading speed of any site that you host on our platform. You will get 64 MB of memory dedicated to Varnish at no additional charge and you will be able to add an instance with no more than a couple of mouse clicks through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated plans. In case you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal momentarily. You can also order more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide if a lot of data will be cached for one site or whether the available memory will be utilized by multiple Internet sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will enable you to restart or to deactivate any instance, to view the system log file associated with it or to delete the cached data using one-click controls. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can assign a dedicated IP to the sites that will employ it.
Varnish in VPS Servers
You can use Varnish with all our VPS server plans at no additional fee, since the platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The sole precondition is that the VPS server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your websites with only a few clicks. Each Virtual Private Server package offers a different amount of system memory for content caching purposes, but you will get minimum several hundred MB, which is quite sufficient even for multiple traffic-heavy websites. Shortly after you enable Varnish, it’ll start caching the content that your website visitors open, so you will notice the much better site loading speeds and the decreased load on your VPS server very soon. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to use a less costly virtual server, since you will not require that many resources to sustain the proper operation of your Internet sites even if you’ve got large sites with a lot of visitors. Best results are achieved if the websites that use the Varnish platform also use a dedicated IP.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
If you need a powerful web hosting solution and you acquire any of the dedicated web hosting plans offered by our company, you’ll be able to use the Varnish content caching platform to enhance the performance of your websites at no extra charge as long as the dedicated server is ordered with our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its easy-to-use interface will enable you to monitor system processes, to clear the cached contents or to reboot any instance with one click. The smallest amount of memory that the caching platform can use to cache website content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for an immense number of resource-hungry sites, so your server will be able to handle a gigantic system load while your website visitors are having a seamless browsing experience. As your dedicated server will come with a number of dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to use Varnish’s maximum potential.