Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, because it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, at times even by 100%, based on the content itself. This tool is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical machine and to increase the browsing speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a given site, the browser request is processed by the web server and the requested content is returned as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the web pages that the website visitor opens and if any of them is accessed once again, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the overall performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests significantly faster than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. In case any content is modified in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be updated the next time somebody attempts to open them.
Varnish in Hosting
You can unlock Varnish’s full potential and optimize your websites’ loading speed irrespective of the hosting plan that you have chosen and you can activate and configure the data caching platform with several mouse clicks via the intuitive GUI offered by our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to choose two different things – how many sites will employ the Varnish platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you have lots of content on a particular site and you receive a lot of site visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the sites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will provide you with easy 1-click controls for turning off or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with any website and for viewing in-depth system logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Varnish is offered by default with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The Varnish platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any website that you host in your semi-dedicated account. If you are in need of more than that, you can increase the system memory allocation. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The very same Upgrades section will allow you to activate more instances too, if you’d like to use Varnish with multiple Internet sites. The two things can be added independently – you can cache the content of one large Internet site or run several Internet sites with the default memory allocation. You can get the most out of Varnish if you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you full control over the platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you’ll be able to delete the cached content, to see a system log or to restart an instance.
Varnish in VPS
You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with any of our Linux VPS when you choose Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is available by default and the amount of memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache your site content depends on the specific plan that you’ve chosen, but even with the lower-end packages, you’ll have no less than several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal solely for content caching purposes. This amount is enough to optimize the overall performance of numerous sites. It’ll take a little time for you to observe the results, as Varnish caches the content that site visitors browse, but shortly after that you will notice the significantly reduced load on the virtual server and the enhanced Internet site load speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to use a lower-end plan for Internet sites which would usually require a more pricey web hosting service.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
If you need a powerful hosting solution and you order any of the dedicated servers hosting packages offered by us, you will be able to use the Varnish data caching platform to improve the performance of your websites at no extra charge on the condition that the dedicated server is ordered with our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its easy-to-work-with graphical interface will permit you to keep track of platform processes, to delete the cached contents or to reboot any instance with one single click. The minimal amount of system memory that the caching platform can use to cache site content is 3 gigabytes, which is more than enough for an enormous number of large-size websites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with a massive system load while your visitors are enjoying a seamless browsing experience. As your machine will include several dedicated IPs, you will be able to use Varnish’s maximum capacity.