Varnish is a website accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any site, sometimes even by 100 percent, based on the content itself. This tool is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical machine and to enhance the browsing speed for the site visitors. Anytime a visitor opens a page on a certain Internet site, the browser request is processed by the web server and the requested info is served as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor opens and in case any of them is opened once again, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests significantly faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. If any data is updated in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time somebody tries to open them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can use Varnish’s potential and accelerate your websites’ speed regardless of the shared hosting package that you’ve chosen and you can activate and set up the data caching platform with several clicks via the simple-to-use GUI offered by our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two separate things – how many websites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes 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 given site and you receive numerous visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will offer you simple 1-click buttons for turning off or restarting any instance, for erasing the cache for any Internet site and for viewing elaborate logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is included by default with all semi-dedicated hosting offered by our company and you can use it for workload distribution purposes. It is available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any website that you host in the account. In case you are in need of more, you can increase the system memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The same Upgrades section will permit you to activate more instances as well, if you wish to use Varnish with multiple Internet sites. The two upgrades can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of one single resource-requiring Internet site or run several different websites with the default memory allowance. You can take full advantage of Varnish in case you have a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated package as well. Hepsia will give you complete control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single click, you’ll be able to delete the cached contents, to see a log or to restart an instance.

Varnish in VPS

You can use Varnish with any of our virtual private server packages at no extra fee, since the caching platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The one and only precondition is that the virtual server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with just a few clicks. Each plan includes a different amount of memory for caching purposes, but you’ll have minimum several hundred megabytes, which is sufficient enough even for multiple traffic-hungry websites. Soon after you activate Varnish, it’ll start caching the content that your visitors browse, so you’ll notice the significantly faster web page load speeds and the less load on your VPS server in no time. The platform will allow you to use a less high-priced virtual server, since you won’t require that many resources to guarantee the correct operation of your sites even if you’ve got traffic-heavy sites with lots of visitors. Best results are achieved if the Internet sites that use the Varnish platform also use a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

If you need a more powerful hosting solution and you order one of the Linux dedicated hosting that we’re offering, you can use the Varnish platform to optimize the performance of your websites at no additional cost on the condition that the dedicated server is ordered with our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. Its user-friendly graphical interface will enable you to keep an eye on platform processes, to delete the cached contents or to restart any instance with one click. The minimum amount of system memory that the caching platform can employ to cache Internet site content is 3 gigabytes, which is more than enough for a large number of traffic-hungry sites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with a gigantic system load while your website visitors are enjoying a smooth browsing experience. As your dedicated machine will come with several different dedicated IPs, you will be able to use Varnish’s maximum capacity.