Varnish
Learn just what Varnish is. Know a lot more about web accelerators and their purpose.
Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web app accelerator that can accelerate the load speed of a website by up to 1000%, based on its content. Every time a visitor accesses any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor opens it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will load substantially faster, as the Varnish platform can deliver information many times faster than any web server software. The result is a considerably faster loading page, which means an enormously improved website browsing experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the live website, the information that Varnish keeps in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the website visitors won’t end up seeing old information.
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Varnish in Shared Web Hosting
You can make use of Varnish’s full potential and boost the speed of your sites irrespective of the
shared web hosting package that you have chosen and you can add and set up the data caching platform with several mouse clicks from the simple-to-use interface offered by our next-gen Hepsia Control Panel. During the procedure, you’ll be able to choose two different things – how many sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can order more instances with less memory and the other way around. In case you have a lot of content on a specific Internet site and you gain lots of site visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will offer you easy 1-click buttons for shutting down or restarting any instance, for erasing the cache associated with each Internet site and for viewing detailed system logs.
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Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our
Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the web accelerator tool and accelerate the loading speed of any site that you host on our platform. You’ll get 64 megabytes of system memory exclusively for Varnish at no additional fee and you will be able to activate an instance with no more than a couple of clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server plans. In case you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you right away. You can also add more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if plenty of content will be cached for a single website or if the memory will be utilized by multiple sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to reboot or to stop any instance, to check the system log for it or to delete the cached content using one-click controls. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the Internet sites which will use it.
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Varnish in VPS Hosting
The Varnish platform comes by default with each of the
Linux VPS hosting packages that we offer as long as the VPS server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can improve the work of your websites with only a couple of mouse clicks. The more powerful the package, the more memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a less powerful package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you have several different sites, you’ll notice a great decrease in the overall server load and a much better site load speed. The Varnish caching platform will have to work for a while as the visitors navigate the website and as soon as the site content has been cached, you’ll see the results. One of the upsides of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less pricey VPS package will accomplish the exact same job as a more expensive one without the platform, so not only will your websites perform much better, but you’ll also save some cash.
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Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
If you order a
dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will acquire Varnish at no additional charge and you’ll exert complete control over it via an incredibly easy-to-use interface – you’ll be able to start, to terminate or to restart an instance, to browse an exhaustive log, to clear the cached content for any site and much, much more. The Varnish platform will have several GB of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you manage traffic-intensive Internet sites with multiple visitors, you will notice the substantially better site loading times and the reduced load on your dedicated machine. This will become a fact soon after you start using the Varnish platform, since it will need some time to cache the content that users access. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capabilities in case the sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP address, but since your dedicated server comes with a couple of IP addresses by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of the monthly charge for the machine itself.