Varnish is a web app accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, as it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, at times even by one hundred percent, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to decrease the overall server load and to enhance the access speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor loads a page on a particular Internet site, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested content is served as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the pages that the website visitor opens and in case any of them is opened once more, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The boost in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests considerably quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. If any data is modified in the meantime, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone tries to open them.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
You can use Varnish’s potential and increase the speed of your sites regardless of the shared hosting plan that you’ve picked and you can enable and set up the content caching platform with a few clicks of the mouse through the simple-to-work-with graphical interface offered by our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many Internet sites will employ the Varnish platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, in other words – 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 with less memory and the other way around. If you have a lot of content on a particular website and you win lots of visitors, more memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with simple one-click buttons for removing or rebooting any instance, for deleting the cache for any Internet site and for seeing comprehensive logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
All our semi-dedicated plans include Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web application accelerator and optimize the speed of any site that you host on our platform. You will get 64 MB of memory exclusively for the Varnish accelerator at no extra fee and you can create an instance with no more than a couple of clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server packages. In case you need more memory, the latter is offered 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 choose whether a lot of content will be cached for one website or whether the available memory will be used by multiple Internet sites. Hepsia will enable you to restart or to delete any instance, to check the system log for it or to delete the cached data using single-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can get a dedicated IP address for the websites which will employ it.
Varnish in VPS Servers
We offer Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed VPS hosting plans, so in case you get a VPS with this web hosting Control Panel, you will be able to make full use of the caching platform at no extra charge. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of memory for content caching purposes based on the specific VPS plan that you have picked during the registration process, but nevertheless, this amount won’t be less than several hundred megabytes. This is quite enough to improve the work of several large-scale websites, so the better website browsing speeds and the decreased load on the virtual machine will be noticeable. The result may not be evident momentarily, since Varnish will require a certain amount of time to cache the website content that people access, but soon after you activate it, you’ll perceive its full potential. This platform will allow you to use a less powerful server and to give less cash to get the exact same performance you’d get with a higher-end machine without Varnish.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
All dedicated web hosting plans that are ordered with the in-house developed Hepsia web hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the server. The Varnish data caching platform can be activated and administered without any effort via the Hepsia Control Panel’s intuitive graphical interface and, with no more than a click, you can see an elaborate system log, add or reboot an instance, clear the cached content associated with any Internet site and much more. Soon after you set up Varnish for a given domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the pages loaded by the website visitors and once it has cached enough content, you will perceive a significantly faster website performance as well as a lowered load on your server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload distribution purposes even if you run numerous Internet sites on the dedicated machine.