Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the loading speed of any site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, based on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical server and to increase the access speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor opens a page on a specific Internet site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested info is sent as a response. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the pages that the website visitor browses and if any of them is accessed again, it is served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance boost is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests significantly quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any content is updated meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone tries to open them.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your websites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a couple of mouse clicks via your Control Panel. The platform is offered as an upgrade with all our hosting plans and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the maximum storage space that will be available for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they are not tied directly to each other, so you can choose if you want plenty of memory for one large website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can use the full potential of the Varnish platform if the websites use a dedicated IP. With the hosting Control Panel, you can quickly start/reboot/remove an instance, delete the cached contents independently for each site which uses the Varnish platform or view an exhaustive log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated plans include Varnish by default, so you can use the web accelerator tool and optimize the loading speed of any site that you host on our platform. You’ll get 64 MB of memory exclusively for Varnish at no extra cost and you’ll be able to create an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated packages. If you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be available to you immediately. You can also add more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if plenty of content will be cached for one website or if the memory will be utilized by different sites. Hepsia will allow you to reboot or to shut down any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to delete the cached data using 1-click buttons. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can allocate a dedicated IP address to the Internet sites which will use it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

The Varnish data caching platform is included by default with each of the VPS hosting plans offered by us given that the server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can boost the performance of your sites with only a couple of clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a less powerful plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you run several different sites, you will notice an immense reduction in the overall server load and a significantly better web page load speed. The platform will have to work for a little while as the users browse the website and as soon as the site content has been cached, you’ll see the effect. One of the pluses of using Varnish is that a lower-end and less costly plan will accomplish the same job as a more pricey one without the caching platform, so not only will your websites perform significantly better, but you will also save some money.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish to accelerate the speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no additional charge, but you’ll also have complete control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface. It will take just one single click to start or discontinue an instance or to delete the cache for any website that is using the Varnish platform and if you’re more experienced, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than three gigabytes of memory for web content caching purposes, so even in case you host lots of sites on your machine and they all use the Varnish platform, the difference in their performance will be perceivable. You will only need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever webpages the website visitors browse on their end. The platform performs best if the websites use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers come with three cost-free IP addresses, you’ll have everything you need.