Varnish is a web accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the physical machine and to enhance the access speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor loads a page on a particular Internet site, the browser request is processed by the web server and the requested information is sent as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the site visitor opens and if any of them is opened again, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests tremendously faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any data is updated in the meantime, the cached pages will also be updated the next time someone accesses them.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each Linux cloud hosting package and if you want to use it, you can add it to your shared website hosting account via the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. There are two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. The first one pertains to the number of the websites that you wish to employ Varnish for and the second one, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, shows the maximum amount of content that the platform can store at any given time. Hepsia’s easy-to-use interface will permit you to remove or to restart any instance, to view comprehensive logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For best results, you can employ a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your website will load significantly faster, which means more happy users and prospective clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is a feature, which comes as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated packages offered by our company and you can use it for workload distribution purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any Internet site that you host in the semi-dedicated account. If you need more than that, you can increase the memory allocation. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The same Upgrades section will enable you to enable more instances as well, if you want to use the Varnish platform with multiple Internet sites. The two upgrades can be added independently – you can cache the content of a single traffic-hungry Internet site or run several different Internet sites with the default memory quota. You can get the most out of the Varnish platform in case you use a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. Hepsia will give you complete control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you’ll be able to delete the cache, to view a log or to restart an instance.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

You can employ Varnish to accelerate the loading speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on it. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready for use at no additional cost, but you’ll also have complete control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-use graphical interface. It will take only one click of the mouse to start or stop an instance or to clear the cache associated with any Internet site that’s using Varnish and if you’re more practiced, you can also check the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of memory for caching purposes, so even if you host numerous websites on your machine and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be apparent. You will only have to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the website visitors open on their end. The platform performs best when the websites use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that our dedicated servers come with 3 charge-free IPs, you’ll have all that you need.