Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, as it can increase the loading speed of any site, sometimes even by 100%, depending 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 server and to accelerate the access speed for the site visitors. Whenever a visitor opens a page on a certain site, the browser request is processed by the web server and the requested data is returned as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the pages that the visitor opens and in case any of them is accessed once more, it is served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The increase in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests substantially faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. If any content is modified meanwhile, the cached webpages will also be updated the next time someone accesses them.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

You can make use of Varnish’s potential and enhance your sites’ load speed regardless of the cloud website hosting package that you have selected and you can activate and configure the platform with a couple of clicks from the easy-to-work-with interface offered by our cutting-edge Hepsia Control Panel. During the procedure, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many sites will use the Varnish caching platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 MB and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can add more instances with less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got plenty of content on a given site and you draw a lot of website visitors, more memory will guarantee you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will offer you simple one-click buttons for stopping or restarting any instance, for deleting the cache associated with any Internet site and for checking elaborate logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated servers offered by our company will allow you to employ Varnish once your new account has been opened, since the content caching platform comes by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can use this load balancing software as soon as your website has been launched online. In case you’re in need of more memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine instantly. You can also increase the number of the sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not bound directly to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll enjoy more versatility. The caching platform will substantially lower the load that your websites cause, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform without effort via your Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access controls. You’ll be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you’ve got, to clear the cache associated with any of your Internet sites or to check system log files.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll acquire the Varnish data caching platform at no additional charge and you’ll exert full control over it via a quite intuitive graphical interface – you will be able to start, to stop or to reboot an instance, to browse an elaborate log, to clear the cached data associated with any website and much, much more. Varnish will have several GB of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you’ve got resource-requiring Internet sites with many visitors, you will notice the much faster page loading times and the lowered load on your dedicated server. This will become a fact shortly after you begin using the Varnish platform, since it will require some time to cache the content that users request. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capability if the sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but since your dedicated server comes with a couple of IP addresses by default, you won’t have to pay anything on top of the monthly fee for the machine itself.