Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any website, sometimes even by one hundred percent, based on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to reduce the overall server load and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor accesses a page on a specific website, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested data is served as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed once more, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance boost comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests tremendously quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. In case any data is edited in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody accesses them.
Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting
In case you host your Internet sites in a cloud website hosting account with our company, you will be able to add Varnish with a few clicks through your Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our web hosting packages and you can select how many sites will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used 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 directly linked to each other, so you can decide if you need lots of memory for a single large-sized website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the Control Panel, you can swiftly start/reboot/disable an instance, clear the cached data independently for each website that uses Varnish or view an elaborate system log file.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
All our semi-dedicated servers include Varnish by default, so you can use the web app accelerator tool and improve the speed of any website that you host on our platform. You’ll get 64 MB of system memory particularly for the Varnish accelerator at no extra cost and you’ll be able to create an instance with no more than a few clicks through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server packages. In case you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be available to you momentarily. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide if plenty of data will be cached for a single site or if the available memory will be used by different sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will enable you to reboot or to disable any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to delete the cached files using one-click controls. To get the most out of Varnish, you can get a dedicated IP for the Internet sites which will employ it.
Varnish in VPS Servers
Varnish comes by default with all VPS plans offered by us on the condition that the server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can optimize the performance of your sites with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a lower-end package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you own several different sites, you’ll notice an immense reduction in the server load and a considerably faster site loading speed. The Varnish platform will need to work for a little while while the visitors navigate the web pages and once the website content has been cached, you’ll distinguish the results. One of the benefits of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less costly plan will accomplish the same job as a more expensive one without the caching platform, so not only will your Internet sites work better, but you will also spare some cash.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
All dedicated web hosting plans that are ordered with the tailor-made Hepsia web hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated server. The Varnish data caching platform can be set up and administered with ease from Hepsia’s easy-to-use interface and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you can view an exhaustive system log, add or restart an instance, delete the cached data for any site and much, much more. Soon after you enable Varnish for a certain domain or subdomain, it will start caching the pages loaded by your site visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you will observe a considerably better site performance as well as a reduced load. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the software platform for load balancing purposes even if you run plenty of websites on the dedicated server.