Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, as it can increase the load speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by 100 percent, depending on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical machine and to increase the access speed for the site visitors. Anytime a visitor loads a page on a certain site, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested information is served as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the web pages that the website visitor browses and if any of them is opened again, it is served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests significantly quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. In case any content is updated in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody tries to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks from your Control Panel. The content caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared web hosting plans and you can select the number of the websites that will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they aren’t directly tied to each other, so you can choose if you want plenty of memory for one single large-sized website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP. With the Control Panel, you can easily start/reboot/delete an instance, clear the cached content individually for each website that employs Varnish or view an elaborate log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish comes by default with all semi-dedicated hosting that we offer and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any website that you host in the account. In case you are in need of more, you can increase the system memory allowance. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 megabytes through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The same section will allow you to create more instances as well, if you wish to use the Varnish caching platform with multiple Internet sites. The two upgrades can be ordered separately – you can cache the content of one single frequently visited Internet site or run several websites with the default memory allocation. You can take full advantage of Varnish if you use a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server package as well. Hepsia will grant you complete control over the platform and, with no more than one single click, you will be able to delete the cached content, to see a system log file or to restart an instance.

Varnish in VPS Web Hosting

The Varnish platform is included by default with all Linux VPS web hosting services that we’re offering given that the virtual server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can optimize the performance of your sites with only a couple of mouse clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a lower-end package, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you have several different Internet sites, you will notice a significant decrease in the server load and a significantly faster webpage load speed. The Varnish caching platform will have to work for a while while the visitors browse the site and once the content has been cached, you’ll perceive the effect. One of the advantages of employing Varnish is that a less powerful and less pricey VPS package will do the exact same job as a more costly one without the platform, so not only will your sites work considerably better, but you will also save a certain amount of cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

If you want the most powerful web hosting solution and you purchase any of the dedicated servers hosting that we are offering, you can use the Varnish data caching platform to enhance the performance of your websites at no extra charge as long as the dedicated machine is ordered with our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its easy-to-use interface will permit you to keep an eye on system processes, to clear the cached content or to reboot any instance with one click of the mouse. The minimum amount of system memory that the Varnish caching platform can employ to cache site content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for an enormous number of large-size Internet sites, so your server will be able to deal with a substantial system load while your website visitors are enjoying a seamless web browsing experience. As your machine will include several dedicated IPs, you’ll be able to make use of Varnish’s full potential.