Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any website, at times even by 100%, depending on the content. This tool is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the physical server and to accelerate the access speed for the website visitors. Whenever a visitor opens 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 reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the site visitor opens and in case any of them is accessed again, it is served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests significantly quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. If any content is changed in the meantime, the cached pages will also be updated the next time somebody tries to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can make use of Varnish’s full potential and increase the loading speed of your websites irrespective of the shared hosting package that you have selected and you can add and configure the data caching platform with several clicks of the mouse from the easy-to-work-with GUI offered by our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to choose two separate things – how many websites will employ the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much data 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 order more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got plenty of content on a given website and you receive lots of site visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with easy one-click buttons for removing or rebooting any instance, for erasing the cache for any site and for viewing detailed logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is offered as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The Varnish platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can employ it with any Internet site that you host in the semi-dedicated server account. If you need more, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 megabytes in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The very same section will permit you to activate more instances as well, in case you want to use Varnish with more Internet sites. The two upgrades can be added separately – you can cache the content of one single large-size site or run several websites with the default memory quota. You can get the most out of the Varnish platform in case you have a dedicated IP address and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server package as well. Hepsia will give you full control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you will be able to clear the cached content, to check a system log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use Varnish with each of our virtual private server packages at no additional charge, since the platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The one and only condition is that the VPS must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up 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 content caching purposes, but you’ll have at least several hundred MB, which is quite enough even for several large-sized Internet sites. Shortly after you activate the Varnish platform, it’ll begin caching the content that your website visitors request, so you’ll notice the substantially better Internet site loading times and the reduced load on your VPS very soon. Varnish will allow you to use a less costly virtual machine, as you will not require that much power to warrant the proper operation of your Internet sites even if you have large-scale sites with multiple visitors. Optimal results are accomplished if the sites that use the Varnish caching platform also use a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll obtain the Varnish content caching platform at no additional fee and you will exert full control over it via a quite time and effort saving GUI – you’ll be able to start, to terminate or to restart an instance, to see a comprehensive system log, to delete the cached files associated with any site and much, much more. Varnish will have several gigabytes of memory at its disposal, so even if you host heavy Internet sites with a huge number of visitors, you will notice the much faster page loading times and the lowered load on your server. This will become a fact soon after you start using the Varnish platform, as it will require some time to cache the content that people access. You can take full advantage of the platform’s potential if the sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that your server includes a couple of IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the server itself.