Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, as it can increase the speed of any site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, based on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical server and to enhance the browsing speed for the site visitors. Whenever a visitor loads a page on a given website, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested data is returned as a response. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the pages that the website visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed once more, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The boost in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests tremendously faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any data is updated meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone opens them.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared packages. You can add it to your web hosting account from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared hosting plans and you will get an exceptionally simple-to-work-with interface, which will grant you complete control over the content caching platform. Using 1-click quick-access controls, you can reboot or disable any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer work for a given Internet site. You can also see an exhaustive log file or erase the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your hosting plan, you will be able to choose the total amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for caching purposes and how many sites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for optimum performance, you can set a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. This will permit you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have a lot of satisfied users.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting come with Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web application accelerator tool and accelerate the loading speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of system memory dedicated to Varnish at no extra cost and you will be able to activate an instance with no more than a couple of mouse clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated packages. If you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal right away. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide if plenty of content will be cached for one website or if the available memory will be utilized by multiple Internet sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to restart or to shut down any instance, to see the system log for it or to delete the cached files using single-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can set a dedicated IP for the sites which will use it.
Varnish in VPS
We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed VPS, so if you purchase a VPS with this web hosting Control Panel, you will be able to take advantage of the data caching platform at no extra cost. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of system memory for data caching purposes depending on the very VPS package that you’ve chosen on the order page, but at any rate, this amount will not be less than several hundred megabytes. This is quite enough to improve the overall performance of a handful of resource-intensive websites, so the faster page browsing speeds and the less load on your VPS will be noticeable. The result may not be detectable momentarily, as Varnish will require a certain amount of time to cache the website content that users request, but shortly after you activate it, you will feel its full capacity. This platform will permit you to use a less powerful VPS and to pay less money to get the exact same performance you would get with a higher-end virtual machine without Varnish.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
All dedicated hosting which are ordered with the custom Hepsia web hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the server. The Varnish content caching platform can be set up and managed without any effort from Hepsia’s time and effort saving interface and, with no more than one click, you can browse an elaborate system log, add or reboot an instance, clear the cache for any website and much, much more. Soon after you configure Varnish for a certain domain or sub-domain, it will begin caching the web pages loaded by your site visitors and as soon as it has cached enough content, you will perceive a tremendously faster site performance in addition to a decreased load on the server. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload distribution purposes even if you run plenty of sites on the server.