Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, because it can increase the loading speed of any site, sometimes even by 100%, depending on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the server and to enhance the access speed for the website visitors. Each 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 data is sent as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the pages that the website visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed again, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The boost in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests significantly faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any content is edited meanwhile, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody attempts to access them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites under a website hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse from your Control Panel. The caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our shared web hosting plans and you can choose how many sites will use it and the total storage space that will be used 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 memory and they’re not directly linked to each other, so you can choose if you need a lot of memory for a single large-size site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the Control Panel, you can quickly start/reboot/deactivate an instance, clear the cached data independently for each website that uses Varnish or check a detailed log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish caching platform is included in the standard set of services that you will obtain in case you choose to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can enable it for any of your Internet sites via our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but if you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the websites that can use this caching platform simultaneously. As these two things are not linked to each other, you can use a few sites with the default amount of memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single Internet site. The Varnish caching platform performs best when you allocate a dedicated IP to the Internet sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will offer you an easy way of restarting any instance. Also, you’ll be able to clear the cached files with just one single click.

Varnish in VPS Web Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish with all our virtual private server plans at no extra charge, since the platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only requirement is that the VPS must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your websites with only a few clicks. Each Virtual Private Server package offers a different amount of system memory for caching purposes, but you will get no less than several hundred MB, which is sufficient enough even for several resource-heavy websites. Soon after you set up the Varnish platform, it’ll start caching the content that your website visitors access, so you’ll notice the significantly faster Internet site loading speeds and the less load on the VPS server very soon. The platform will allow you to use a less high-priced VPS server, since you will not need that much power to guarantee the proper operation of your websites even if you own resource-intensive Internet sites with many visitors. Best results are accomplished if the sites which use the Varnish caching platform use also a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

You can use Varnish to optimize the loading speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server from us when the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on it. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready for use at no extra cost, but you will also exert full control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-navigate GUI. It will take only one single click of the mouse to start or delete an instance or to clear the cache for any site that is using Varnish and in case you are more experienced, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of system memory for website content caching purposes, so even in case you host a vast number of Internet sites on your machine and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their performance will be perceivable. You will just need to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever content the visitors load on their end. The platform works best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers include 3 free-of-charge IP addresses, you’ll have everything you need.