Varnish is a web accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any Internet site, at times even by 100 percent, depending on the content itself. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the physical machine and to accelerate the access speed for the website visitors. Anytime a visitor opens a page on a certain 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 pages that the site visitor opens and in case any of them is opened for a second time, it is served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the overall performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests substantially quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the users. In case any data is edited meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone attempts to access them.

Varnish in Web Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each web hosting plan and if you want to use it, you can add it to your account through the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. There are two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. The first one depends on the number of the sites that you wish to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 32 MB, indicates the maximum amount of data that the platform can cache at any given time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s user-friendly interface will permit you to deactivate or to restart any instance, to view exhaustive logs or to clear the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For best results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will load significantly faster, meaning more satisfied visitors and potential customers.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will get Varnish at no extra cost and you’ll have full control over it through an amazingly easy-to-use interface – you’ll be able to start, to disable or to reboot an instance, to check an elaborate log, to clear the cache for any website and much more. The Varnish platform will have several GB of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you run resource-consuming Internet sites with lots of visitors, you will notice the tremendously better site loading speeds and the reduced load on the server. This will become a fact soon after you start using Varnish, as it will require a certain amount of time to cache the website content that users access. You can take full advantage of the platform’s potential if the Internet sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your dedicated server includes a couple of IPs by default, you will not need to pay anything on top of the monthly fee for the machine itself.