Varnish is a web accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, as it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, at times even by 100 percent, based on the content itself. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the physical machine and to improve the access speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a certain site, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested info is returned as a response. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the pages that the site visitor opens and if any of them is accessed once again, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests significantly faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. If any content is updated meanwhile, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody attempts to access them.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared web hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with several clicks of the mouse through your Control Panel. The platform is available as an upgrade with all our web hosting plans and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they aren’t directly tied to each other, so you can choose whether you want lots of memory for one large-size website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the Control Panel, you can quickly start/restart/deactivate an instance, delete the cached contents independently for each website that employs the Varnish platform or see an in-depth system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is a feature, which is included as standard with all semi-dedicated servers that we are offering and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The Varnish data caching 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 your semi-dedicated server account. If you’re in need of more, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The exact same Upgrades section will allow you to create more instances too, in case you would like to use the Varnish platform with multiple websites. The two upgrades can be added independently – you can cache the content of one single popular site or run several different sites with the default memory allocation. You can take full advantage of the Varnish platform in case you’ve got a dedicated IP address and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server plan as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you complete control over the platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you’ll be able to clear the cached content, to view a log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated servers that are ordered with the custom Hepsia web hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the machine. The Varnish platform can be set up and managed without efforts via the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-navigate graphical interface and, with no more than one single mouse click, you can browse an elaborate log, add or restart an instance, delete the cached files associated with any Internet site and much more. Shortly after you activate Varnish for a certain domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the web pages browsed by your website visitors and once it has cached enough content, you’ll perceive a substantially better website performance plus a reduced load on the dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for load distribution purposes even if you host a large number of websites on your dedicated machine.