Varnish is a web app accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any site, at times even by 100 percent, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the server and to improve the access speed for the website visitors. Each time a visitor loads a page on a particular website, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested info is served as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor browses and in case any of them is opened once more, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the browser requests considerably quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any data is modified in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be updated the next time someone tries to access them.
Varnish in Website Hosting
If you host your websites under a website hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with several clicks from your Control Panel. The data caching platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our plans and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they aren’t linked directly to each other, so you can choose if you need a lot of memory for a single large-scale site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can use the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP. With the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/remove an instance, clear the cached content independently for each website that employs the Varnish platform or check an exhaustive log.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
All our semi-dedicated servers come with Varnish by default, so you can take advantage of the web app accelerator tool and enhance the speed of any website that you host on our platform. You will get 64 megabytes of system memory exclusively for the Varnish accelerator at no extra fee and you will be able to activate an instance with no more than a few clicks of the mouse via the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server packages. If you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you straight away. You can also order more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide if a lot of data will be cached for one site or if the memory will be utilized by several sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to restart or to delete any instance, to check the system log file associated with it or to delete the cached files using 1-click controls. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can get a dedicated IP for the Internet sites which will employ it.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
When you want a powerful website hosting solution and you acquire any of the dedicated servers offered by our company, you will be able to use the Varnish caching platform to enhance the overall performance of your websites at no additional charge as long as the dedicated machine is ordered with our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its easy-to-navigate graphical interface will permit you to monitor system processes, to clear the cached data or to reboot any instance with one click. The minimum amount of memory that the caching platform can employ to cache site content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for a vast collection of resource-consuming sites, so your server will be able to handle a massive system load while your Internet site visitors are having a seamless web browsing experience. Since your dedicated server will include a number of dedicated IPs, you’ll be able to make use of Varnish’s maximum potential.