Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, because it can increase the loading speed of any site, at times even by one hundred percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to decrease the overall load on the server and to improve the access speed for the site visitors. Whenever a visitor opens a page on a certain Internet site, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested information is delivered as a response. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the visitor opens and in case any of them is accessed once more, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance boost is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests considerably faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is edited meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time somebody opens them.
Varnish in Website Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our Linux website hosting. You can add it to your account through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with all shared hosting packages and you will get an exceptionally easy-to-use GUI, which will grant you full control over the content caching system. Using one-click quick-access buttons, you can reboot or deactivate any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer work for a certain website. You can also view a detailed log or delete the cache for any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting plan, you’ll be able to choose the total amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for data caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always get more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for maximum performance, you can assign a dedicated IP to the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your sites and to have lots of happy site visitors.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
The semi-dedicated plans that we’re offering will allow you to use Varnish once your brand-new semi-dedicated server account is active, as the platform is available by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can use this workload distribution software once your site has been launched online. If you are in need of more system memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server in an instant. You can also increase the number of the websites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly bound to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll enjoy more versatility. The Varnish platform will noticeably reduce the load that your sites generate, so your visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish without efforts through your Control Panel using fast-access controls. You will be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you have, to clear the cached content for any of your sites or to view system log files.
Varnish in VPS Servers
You can use Varnish with any of our VPS server plans at no extra charge, as the platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The only prerequisite is that the server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with just a couple of clicks. Each Virtual Private Server plan comes with a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you will have minimum several hundred megabytes, which is enough even for several large-sized sites. Shortly after you set up Varnish, it will begin caching the content that your site visitors access, so you’ll notice the much faster Internet site load times and the decreased load on the server very soon. The caching platform will permit you to use a less high-priced Virtual Private Server, since you will not need that many resources to ensure the proper operation of your sites even if you’ve got high-demand websites with plenty of visitors. Optimal results are accomplished if the sites that use the Varnish platform use also a dedicated IP.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
You can employ Varnish to increase the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from us when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready to be used at no additional charge, but you will also exert complete control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-navigate interface. It’ll take only one click of the mouse to start or cancel an instance or to clear the cached files associated with any website that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you are more practiced, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for caching purposes, so even in case you run multiple Internet sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their performance will be obvious. You’ll just need to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever content the site visitors load on their end. The Varnish platform performs best when the sites use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers come with three charge-free IP addresses, you’ll have all that you need.