Varnish
Varnish can greatly increase the overall performance of your websites. Find out how to make best use of its power.
Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches information for quicker response times. It’s sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and a web browser. When a visitor accesses a given web page, its content is requested by the browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and delivers the requested data. If Varnish is enabled for a particular website, it will cache its pages on the first visit and if the visitor visits a cached page again, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the server. The boosted loading speed is a result of the substantially faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the visitors will continue seeing the exact same content over and over again, because any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its memory.
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Varnish in Cloud Hosting
In case you host your sites under a
cloud hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse from your Control Panel. The data caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared packages and you can select how many websites will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be used for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they aren’t tied directly to each other, so you can decide if you want lots of memory for one single large website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/delete an instance, clear the cached data individually for each site which uses Varnish or see an exhaustive system log file.
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Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
Varnish is an essential part of the standard set of services that you will obtain in case you choose to host your websites under a
semi-dedicated server account. You can enable it for any of your websites through our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. The default memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the Internet sites that can use this platform at the same time. As these two features aren’t linked to each other, you can use a couple of instances with the default memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for one single site. The Varnish platform performs best when you get a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you an easy means of rebooting any instance. On top of that, you’ll be able to clear the cached contents with only a click.
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Varnish in VPS Servers
You can take full advantage of the workload balancing potential of Varnish with each of our
VPS hosting plans if you choose Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is offered by default and the system memory that it will be able to utilize to cache your website content is dependent on the given package that you have picked, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have at least several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal only for content caching purposes. This amount is enough to optimize the work of numerous sites. It will take some time for you to see the effects, as the Varnish platform caches the content that website visitors open, but soon after that you will notice the considerably decreased load on the VPS and the accelerated Internet site browsing speed. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to use a lower-end package for sites which would usually require a more high-priced web hosting service.
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Varnish in Dedicated Servers
When you need the most powerful hosting solution and you order one of the
dedicated web hosting plans offered by our company, you will be able to use the Varnish content caching platform to improve the overall performance of your websites at no additional cost as long as the dedicated machine is ordered with our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its easy-to-use interface will enable you to monitor system processes, to clear the cached data or to reboot any instance with a click. The smallest amount of memory that the platform can use to cache Internet site content is 3 GB, which is more than enough for an immense collection of large sites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with a huge system load while your site visitors are having a smooth browsing experience. Since your machine will include several dedicated IP addresses, you’ll be able to make use of Varnish’s maximum capacity.