Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, depending on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the physical server and to accelerate the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor opens a page on a certain Internet site, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested data is returned as a reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the pages that the site visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed once again, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests significantly faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any data is edited meanwhile, the cached webpages will also be updated the next time someone tries to access them.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host your websites in a cloud website hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse from your Control Panel. The data caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared web hosting packages and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they’re not directly linked to each other, so you can choose whether you want plenty of memory for one single large-scale website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of Varnish if the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the Control Panel, you can easily start/reboot/deactivate an instance, clear the cached content independently for each site which employs the Varnish platform or see an exhaustive system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated hosting plans come with Varnish by default, so you can make use of the website accelerator and improve the load speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of system memory dedicated to the Varnish accelerator at no extra cost and you can activate an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated plans. If you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal instantly. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide if lots of content will be cached for one site or if the available memory will be utilized by different Internet sites. Hepsia will permit you to restart or to delete any instance, to check the system log associated with it or to clear the cached files using single-click buttons. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can set a dedicated IP for the sites that will employ it.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you want a more powerful hosting solution and you obtain one of the dedicated web hosting plans offered by our company, you will be able to use the Varnish caching platform to boost the overall performance of your sites at no extra fee as long as the dedicated server is ordered with our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its simple-to-work-with GUI will permit you to keep an eye on platform processes, to delete the cached data or to reboot any instance with a click. The minimum amount of system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache site content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for an immense number of large-size sites, so your server will be able to cope with an immense system load while your Internet site visitors are enjoying a smooth web browsing experience. Since your machine will include a number of dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to make use of Varnish’s maximum capacity.