Varnish is a web application accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any Internet site, at times even by one hundred percent, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to decrease the overall server load and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Anytime a visitor loads a page on a certain Internet site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested information is served as a reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the website visitor opens and in case 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 browser requests significantly quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any data is changed meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone attempts to access them.
Varnish in Shared Web Hosting
You can use Varnish’s potential and optimize the load speed of your sites irrespective of the shared web hosting package that you’ve selected and you can activate and set up the platform with a few clicks of the mouse from the easy-to-use GUI offered by our advanced Hepsia Control Panel. During the procedure, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many Internet sites will employ Varnish, i.e. the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 MB and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and the other way around. If you have plenty of content on a given website and you get numerous visitors, more memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will provide you with easy one-click controls for terminating or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache for each Internet site and for viewing elaborate logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
Varnish is a feature, which is offered as standard with all semi-dedicated servers that we offer and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can employ it with any site that you host in the account. If you’re in need of more, you can increase the system memory allocation. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The exact same section will enable you to create more instances as well, in case you would like to use Varnish with multiple Internet sites. The two upgrades can be ordered separately – you can cache the content of a single resource-hungry website or use several Internet sites with the default memory allocation. You can get the most out of Varnish if you use a dedicated IP address and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server package as well. Hepsia will grant you full control over the caching platform and, with no more than one mouse click, you’ll be able to delete the cached data, to check a log or to restart an instance.
Varnish in VPS Servers
The Varnish data caching platform is included by default with each of the Linux VPS service offered by our company given that the machine is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can improve the work of your sites with only a few mouse clicks. The more powerful the package, the more system memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a less powerful plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you run a handful of sites, you will notice a substantial reduction in the overall server load and a substantially better site load speed. The Varnish caching platform will need to work for a little while as the visitors navigate the web pages and as soon as the site content has been cached, you will observe the results. One of the pluses of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less costly VPS plan will do the very same job as a more expensive one without the platform, so not only will your sites work much better, but you will also spare a certain amount of cash.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
When you need the most powerful hosting solution and you buy any of the Linux dedicated servers that we are offering, you can use the Varnish data caching platform to enhance the work of your Internet sites at no extra fee on the condition that the dedicated machine is ordered with our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its intuitive graphical interface will enable you to monitor platform processes, to clear the cached data or to restart any instance with one single click of the mouse. The smallest amount of memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is three gigabytes, which is more than enough for a large selection of repeatedly visited sites, so your server will be able to deal with a colossal system load while your site visitors are enjoying a smooth web browsing experience. As your dedicated server will include several dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to use Varnish’s maximum potential.