Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any website, at times even by one hundred percent, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical machine and to accelerate the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor loads a page on a certain website, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested content is returned as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor opens and in case any of them is loaded once again, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests substantially quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is updated in the meantime, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time someone accesses them.
Varnish in Shared Website Hosting
In case you host your websites in a shared website hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a few mouse clicks through your hosting Control Panel. The 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 data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can choose whether you need plenty of memory for a single large-sized website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP address. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/shut down an instance, delete the cached files individually for each website that employs the Varnish platform or view a detailed log.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Linux semi-dedicated servers that we’re offering will allow you to use Varnish once your brand-new account has been activated, as the platform is offered by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can make use of this workload distribution software once your site has been published on the Internet. If you are in need of more memory, you can get 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia hosting 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 Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll enjoy more versatility. The Varnish platform will seriously decrease the load on the semi-dedicated server generated by your sites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You will be able to manage Varnish with no effort via your Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You will be able to start/disable any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached data associated with any of your Internet sites or to check system logs.
Varnish in VPS Servers
You can take advantage of Varnish with all our VPS server plans at no extra cost, as the caching platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The sole prerequisite is that the virtual server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your sites with only a few mouse clicks. Each VPS plan features a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll have no less than several hundred MB, which is sufficient enough even for several large-size websites. Shortly after you activate Varnish, it will start caching the content that your website visitors browse, so you will notice the much better Internet site load speeds and the less load on your Virtual Private Server in no time. Varnish will allow you to use a less expensive VPS, since you won’t need that much power to warrant the proper operation of your sites even if you have traffic-intensive sites with many visitors. Optimum results are achieved if the sites that use the Varnish caching platform use also a dedicated IP.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
When you want a more powerful web hosting solution and you purchase any of the Linux dedicated web hosting plans offered by us, you can use the Varnish caching platform to enhance the performance of your websites at no extra charge on the condition that the dedicated machine is ordered with our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its easy-to-work-with GUI will enable you to keep an eye on platform processes, to delete the cached data or to reboot any instance with one click of the mouse. The smallest amount of memory that the caching platform can employ to cache Internet site content is 3 GB, which is quite enough for a huge number of resource-hungry sites, so your server will be able to cope with a massive load while your Internet site visitors are having a smooth web browsing experience. Since your dedicated machine will come with several dedicated IPs, you will be able to use Varnish’s full capacity.