Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by 100%, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall server load and to boost the browsing speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor loads a page on a certain website, 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 enabled, it caches the pages that the visitor opens and in case any of them is loaded for a second time, it is fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance improvement is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests substantially faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any data is edited in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone tries to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

In case you host your sites under a shared hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse from your Control Panel. The content caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our plans and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they aren’t linked directly to each other, so you can choose whether you need plenty of memory for one large-sized website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of Varnish if the sites use a dedicated IP. With the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/disable an instance, clear the cached content independently for each website which uses the Varnish platform or see a detailed system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish comes as standard with all semi-dedicated packages that we offer and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can employ it with any website that you host in the semi-dedicated account. If you are in need of more, you can increase the memory allowance. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The same section will allow you to activate more instances as well, in case you want to use Varnish with multiple websites. The two upgrades can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of one single traffic-intensive website or use several websites with the default memory allocation. You can get the most out of the Varnish caching platform in case you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server plan as well. Hepsia will grant you full control over the platform and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you will be able to clear the cached files, to see a system log or to restart an instance.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can take full advantage of the workload balancing capabilities of Varnish with each of our VPS hosting in case you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is offered by default and the memory that it’ll be able to use to cache the content of your sites is dependent on the specific plan that you’ve picked, but even with the lower-end plans, you’ll have at least several hundred MB of memory at your disposal solely for content caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to enhance the performance of numerous websites. It’ll take a little time for you to detect the results, since Varnish caches the content that visitors request, but soon thereafter you’ll notice the considerably reduced load on your VPS and the accelerated site load speed. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to use a less powerful package for sites which would usually require a more pricey web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can use Varnish in order to increase the load speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready to be used at no extra cost, but you will also exert complete control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with interface. It will take just one single click to start or stop an instance or to clear the cached content associated with any site that’s using the Varnish platform and if you’re more tech-savvy, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than three gigabytes of system memory for web content caching purposes, so even in case you run a vast number of websites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the difference in their overall performance will be visible. You’ll only have to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever web pages the visitors access on their end. The platform performs best if the sites use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that our servers include three free-of-cost IPs, you will have everything you need.