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. This tool is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to enhance the access speed for the website visitors. Each time a visitor opens a page on a given site, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested content is sent as a reply. If Varnish is enabled, it caches the web pages that the visitor browses and if any of them is accessed once again, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The boost in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests considerably faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any data is modified in the meantime, the cached pages will also be updated the next time someone attempts to open them.
Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting
Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with all our Linux cloud website hosting packages. You can add it to your website hosting account via the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all shared packages and you’ll get an amazingly simple-to-work-with interface, which will grant you complete control over the data caching platform. Using one-click quick-access buttons, you can reboot or disable any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be activated for a certain website. You can also see a comprehensive system log file or erase the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your shared web hosting plan, you will be able to select the maximum amount of memory that will be at your disposal for content caching purposes and how many sites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for best performance, you can set a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to get the most out of your sites and to have a lot of happy website visitors.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll acquire the Varnish caching platform at no additional fee and you will have complete control over it through a pretty simple-to-use graphical interface – you’ll be able to start, to terminate or to reboot an instance, to view an in-depth log, to delete the cache associated with any website and much more. The Varnish caching platform will have several GB of system memory at its disposal, so even if you have resource-heavy Internet sites with a huge number of visitors, you’ll notice the significantly faster page loading times and the decreased load on the server. This will happen soon after you begin using Varnish, as it will require some time to cache the pages that people access. You can make the most of the platform’s capabilities if the Internet sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your dedicated server comes with a couple of IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.