Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by one hundred 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 server and to accelerate the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor opens a page on a certain website, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested info is returned as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the website visitor browses and if any of them is opened again, it is fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the overall performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests significantly faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any data is changed in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone opens them.
Varnish in Website Hosting
If you host your sites under a website hosting account with our company, you will be able to add Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse via your Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our packages and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be available for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they aren’t directly linked to each other, so you can decide if you want lots of memory for one single large-scale website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of Varnish if the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/delete an instance, delete the cached content individually for each website that uses Varnish or check a detailed system log file.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting include Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the accelerator and improve the load speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 MB of system memory dedicated to Varnish at no additional cost and you’ll be able to activate an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server plans. If you want 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 immediately. You can also add more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if lots of data will be cached for a single website or whether the memory will be utilized by multiple websites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to reboot or to remove any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to delete the cached content using single-click controls. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can get a dedicated IP for the sites which will use it.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
You can use Varnish with each of our virtual private server plans at no additional cost, as the content caching platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The only prerequisite is that the server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your Internet sites with just a few clicks. Each Virtual Private Server package offers a different amount of memory for caching purposes, but you will have no less than several hundred MB, which is enough even for several resource-intensive Internet sites. Soon after you set up the Varnish platform, it will begin caching the content that your site visitors browse, so you will notice the substantially faster page load times and the decreased load on the virtual machine very soon. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to use a less high-priced VPS, as you will not require that many resources to sustain the uninterrupted operation of your sites even if you manage resource-requiring websites with plenty of visitors. Optimal results are achieved if the sites that use the Varnish caching platform also use a dedicated IP address.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
When you need a more powerful website hosting solution and you get any of the Linux dedicated hosting services that we are offering, you can use Varnish to improve the overall performance of your Internet sites at no extra cost on the condition that the dedicated server is ordered with our innovative Hepsia Control Panel. Its easy-to-use GUI will allow you to monitor platform processes, to delete the cache or to reboot any instance with a click. The minimal amount of system memory that the Varnish platform can employ to cache website content is 3 GB, which is more than enough for a large number of large websites, so your server will be able to deal with a huge load while your Internet site visitors are having a seamless web browsing experience. Since your dedicated server will come with a number of dedicated IP addresses, you’ll be able to use Varnish’s maximum capacity.