Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, because it can increase the load speed of any Internet site, at times even by 100%, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the physical server and to accelerate the access speed for the site visitors. Anytime a visitor loads a page on a certain website, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested info is served as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the website visitor opens and if any of them is accessed again, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests considerably quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the users. In case any data is modified meanwhile, the cached pages will also be updated the next time someone accesses them.

Varnish in Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each and every hosting and if you want to use it, you can add it to your account through the Upgrades section in your Hepsia Control Panel. There are two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one pertains to the number of the websites that you’d like to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, indicates the maximum amount of data that the data caching platform can store at any particular time. Hepsia’s user-friendly GUI will enable you to delete or to restart any instance, to view detailed logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For optimal results, you can employ a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your site will load much faster, meaning more satisfied site users and potential customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated servers come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the web accelerator and boost the loading speed of any site that you host on our platform. You’ll get 64 MB of system memory particularly for the Varnish accelerator at no extra fee and you can activate an instance with no more than a few clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated plans. If you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal momentarily. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide whether a lot of content will be cached for a single website or whether the available memory will be used by different sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to restart or to terminate any instance, to check the system log file associated with it or to clear the cached data using 1-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can set a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites which will employ it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take advantage of Varnish with any of our VPS server packages at no extra fee, since the caching platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The only condition is that the VPS must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your sites with only a few clicks of the mouse. Each plan features a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes, which is sufficient even for multiple large-scale websites. Shortly after you set up Varnish, it’ll start caching the content that your visitors access, so you’ll notice the significantly better site loading times and the decreased load on your VPS server very soon. The Varnish platform will allow you to use a less costly virtual server, since you will not require that much power to guarantee the uninterrupted operation of your sites even if you manage resource-consuming Internet sites with many visitors. Optimal results are achieved if the Internet sites that use Varnish use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish in order to improve the load speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server with us if the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready to be used at no additional fee, but you’ll also have full control over it via Hepsia’s easy-to-use graphical interface. It’ll take only one click of the mouse to start or remove an instance or to clear the cached data for any website that is using Varnish and if you are more advanced, you can also view the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of system memory for content caching purposes, so even if you host an enormous number of Internet sites on your dedicated server and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be detectable. You’ll just need to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever webpages the site visitors access on their end. The Varnish platform works best if the sites use a dedicated IP, but since our dedicated servers include three free IPs, you’ll have everything you need.