Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, because it can increase the speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by 100%, depending on the content itself. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the physical server and to accelerate the access speed for the site visitors. Each time a visitor loads a page on a given Internet site, the browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested information is delivered as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the pages that the visitor opens and if any of them is accessed once more, it is fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The increase in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests substantially faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. If any data is updated meanwhile, the cached pages will also be updated the next time somebody accesses them.

Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with all our cloud web hosting. You can add it to your web hosting account via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared packages and you’ll get a really easy-to-work-with interface, which will grant you complete control over the data caching platform. Using 1-click fast-access controls, you can reboot or stop any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be activated for a given site. You can also view a comprehensive system log or delete the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting plan, you will be able to choose the total amount of memory that will be at your disposal for content caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always get more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for top performance, you can set a dedicated IP for the sites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to get the most out of your Internet sites and to have numerous pleased website visitors.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish to accelerate the load speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready to be used at no extra fee, but you will also have complete control over it via Hepsia’s intuitive graphical interface. It’ll take only one single mouse click to start or remove an instance or to clear the cache for any site that’s using Varnish and if you are more experienced, you can also see the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 GB of memory for caching purposes, so even if you host a lot of Internet sites on your server and they all use the platform, the improvement in their performance will be detectable. You will only have to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever content the website visitors browse on their end. The platform works best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our servers include three free IPs, you will have all that you need.