Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, because it can increase the load speed of any website, sometimes even by 100%, depending on the content itself. This tool is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Each time a visitor loads a page on a particular website, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested info is sent as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the website visitor browses and if any of them is accessed again, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests considerably quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. If any content is edited meanwhile, the cached pages will also be updated the next time someone tries to access them.
Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting
You can unleash Varnish’s full potential and increase your websites’ speed irrespective of the cloud web hosting plan that you have picked and you can add and configure the platform with a few clicks from the simple-to-work-with GUI offered by our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll be able to choose two different things – how many Internet sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 MB and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can use more instances and less memory and vice versa. In case you’ve got a lot of content on a given site and you attract lots of visitors, more memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will provide you with easy one-click buttons for deleting or rebooting any instance, for deleting the cache associated with each Internet site and for seeing in-depth system logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Varnish content caching platform is an essential part of the default service set that you’ll get if you choose to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can enable it for any of your websites via our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that Varnish can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the websites that can use this caching platform at the same time. As these two things are not tied to each other, you can use several sites with the default amount of memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single site. The Varnish platform works best when you assign a dedicated IP address to the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will offer you a simple way of restarting any instance. In addition, you’ll be able to delete the cached data with only one single mouse click.
Varnish in VPS
You can use Varnish with each of our virtual private server plans at no extra cost, as the platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only prerequisite is that the VPS must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your sites with only a couple of clicks. Each Virtual Private Server plan includes a different amount of system memory for data caching purposes, but you will have at least several hundred MB, which is sufficient even for several resource-consuming Internet sites. Shortly after you activate the Varnish platform, it’ll begin caching the content that your visitors request, so you will notice the much faster web page load speeds and the lowered load on your Virtual Private Server in no time. The caching platform will allow you to use a less high-priced VPS, as you won’t need that much power to guarantee the proper operation of your websites even if you manage traffic-heavy Internet sites with plenty of visitors. Maximum results are accomplished if the sites which use Varnish also use a dedicated IP address.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
You can employ Varnish in order to increase the loading speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready for use at no additional charge, but you’ll also have complete control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-navigate GUI. It will take only a click to start or discontinue an instance or to clear the cache for any website that’s using Varnish and in case you are more competent, you can also browse the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for site content caching purposes, so even in case you host a vast number of Internet sites on your machine and they all use the platform, the difference in their performance will be obvious. You’ll only need to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever webpages the visitors browse on their end. The Varnish platform performs best if the websites use a dedicated IP, but since our servers include 3 cost-free IP addresses, you will have all that you need.