Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, as it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by 100 percent, depending on the content. This tool is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to increase the browsing speed for the website visitors. Each time a visitor opens a page on a specific site, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested content is delivered as a reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor opens and in case any of them is accessed for a second time, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the overall 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 visitors. If any content is changed in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be updated the next time someone attempts to open them.

Varnish in Hosting

Our company offers Varnish as an optional upgrade with each hosting and if you would like to use it, you can add it to your website hosting account using the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re two different things that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the memory. The first one depends on the number of the sites that you’d like to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, displays the total amount of data that the platform can store at any particular time. Hepsia’s easy-to-use graphical interface will permit you to delete or to reboot any instance, to check exhaustive logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just a click. For maximum results, you can use a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will load tremendously faster, which means more pleased visitors and prospective clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish content caching platform is part of the standard service set that you’ll acquire if you decide to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your Internet sites through our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the Internet sites that can use this caching platform at the same time. Since these two things aren’t tied to each other, you can use several sites with the default memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single Internet site. Varnish performs best when you allocate a dedicated IP address to the Internet sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with an easy way of restarting any instance. In addition, you’ll be able to clear the cached files with only one single mouse click.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use Varnish with each of our VPS server plans at no additional cost, as the content caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only prerequisite is that the VPS must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with just a couple of mouse clicks. Each Virtual Private Server package includes a different amount of memory for content caching purposes, but you’ll have minimum several hundred MB, which is quite sufficient even for several traffic-heavy sites. Shortly after you activate Varnish, it’ll begin caching the content that your site visitors browse, so you’ll notice the considerably faster Internet site loading times and the less load on your Virtual Private Server in no time. Varnish will allow you to use a less costly VPS server, since you won’t require that many resources to warrant the correct operation of your websites even if you’ve got resource-demanding sites with numerous visitors. Optimum results are accomplished if the Internet sites that use Varnish use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you want the most powerful website hosting solution and you buy one of the dedicated servers offered by our company, you’ll be able to use the Varnish data caching platform to enhance the work of your websites at no extra charge on the condition that the dedicated server is ordered with our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its simple-to-work-with graphical interface will permit you to monitor platform processes, to delete the cached files or to restart any instance with one mouse click. The minimum amount of system memory that Varnish can employ to cache Internet site content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for a large selection of frequently visited sites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with an enormous load while your visitors are enjoying a smooth web browsing experience. Since your dedicated machine will include a number of dedicated IPs, you will be able to use Varnish’s full potential.