Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any site, at times even by 100 percent, based on the content. This tool is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical server and to accelerate the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor accesses a page on a given site, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested info is delivered as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the site visitor browses and if any of them is opened for a second time, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests substantially quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any content is modified in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be updated the next time somebody accesses them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each of our shared hosting packages. You can add it to your web hosting account via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is available with all shared web hosting plans and you will get a very user-friendly interface, which will give you full control over the data caching platform. Using 1-click fast-access buttons, you can restart or stop any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer work for a particular site. You can also see an exhaustive system log file or erase the cache for any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting package, you’ll be able to choose the maximum amount of memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for optimum performance, you can get a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use Varnish. This will permit you to get the most out of your websites and to have a lot of pleased site users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting packages offered by us will permit you to use Varnish as soon as your new account has been set up, since the content caching platform is offered by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can use this workload distribution software as soon as your site has been taken online. In case you are in need of more memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine straight away. You can also increase the number of the websites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not bound directly to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll have more freedom. The Varnish caching platform will significantly lower the server load that your sites generate, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish platform effortlessly via the Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access controls. You will be able to start/cancel any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached data associated with any of your sites or to view system log files.

Varnish in VPS

You can use Varnish with all our virtual private server packages at no additional fee, as the caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The sole condition is that the Virtual Private Server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your websites with just a few clicks. Each Virtual Private Server package comes with a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll get no less than several hundred MB, which is quite enough even for several large-scale websites. Shortly after you activate Varnish, it’ll start caching the content that your visitors request, so you’ll notice the substantially faster website loading speeds and the less load on the VPS very soon. The caching platform will allow you to use a less high-priced VPS server, since you won’t require that many resources to warrant the uninterrupted operation of your Internet sites even if you’ve got large-sized sites with a lot of visitors. Optimal results are accomplished if the websites that use the Varnish caching platform also use a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

All dedicated servers hosting packages which are ordered with the custom-built Hepsia web hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the server. The Varnish platform can be activated and managed effortlessly via the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with graphical interface and, with no more than one single mouse click, you can check a detailed log, add or reboot an instance, delete the cached content associated with any website and much, much more. Shortly after you set up the Varnish platform for a certain domain or subdomain, it will start caching the webpages loaded by the site visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you will observe a substantially better site performance and a decreased load on your dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload balancing purposes even if you host numerous Internet sites on the machine.