Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, because it can increase the load speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by 100 percent, based on the content itself. This tool is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall server load and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Each time a visitor accesses a page on a specific Internet site, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested content is served as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor opens and if any of them is loaded again, it’s fetched by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The improvement in the overall performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests substantially quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the site visitors. If any data is updated in the meantime, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody accesses them.
Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting
You can use Varnish’s potential and accelerate your websites’ speed regardless of the cloud website hosting package that you have picked and you can enable and configure the content caching platform with a couple of clicks of the mouse using the simple-to-use interface offered by our advanced Hepsia Control Panel. During the process, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many Internet sites will employ the Varnish platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter is offered 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 lots of content on a certain site and you win lots of visitors, more system memory will give you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will offer you simple one-click buttons for terminating or rebooting any instance, for deleting the cache associated with any Internet site and for viewing detailed system logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Varnish platform is an essential part of the basic service set that you’ll acquire when you decide to host your websites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can enable it for any of your sites via our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the sites that can use this platform at the same time. As these two things aren’t linked to each other, you can use a couple of instances with the default amount of memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single website. Varnish performs best if you get a dedicated IP for the websites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you an easy way of rebooting any instance. In addition, you’ll be able to delete the cached data with only one mouse click.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
You can use Varnish in order to boost the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no extra fee, but you will also exert total control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-use interface. It will take just one single click of the mouse to start or shut down an instance or to clear the cached content for any Internet site that is using Varnish and if you’re more experienced, you can also browse the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of system memory for site content caching purposes, so even if you host lots of sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the platform, the difference in their performance will be distinguishable. You’ll simply have to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever webpages the visitors load on their end. The platform works best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that our dedicated servers include 3 free-of-cost IP addresses, you will have everything you need.