Varnish
Varnish can immensely increase the performance of your websites. Find out how to make best use of its power.
Varnish is a website accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, as it can increase the speed of any site, at times even by 100 percent, based on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the physical server and to enhance the browsing speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a certain site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested info is served as a response. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the site visitor opens and if any of them is opened again, it’s delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance increase comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests tremendously faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is modified in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time somebody tries to open them.
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Varnish in Website Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each
Linux website hosting package and if you would like to use it, you can add it to your shared account using the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. The first one pertains to the number of the sites that you wish to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which comes in increments of 32 megabytes, shows the total amount of content that the platform can store at any particular time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with GUI will allow you to terminate or to reboot any instance, to see exhaustive logs or to clear the platform’s cache with just a click. For optimal results, you can employ a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your website will load tremendously faster, meaning more satisfied website users and potential clients.
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Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our
Linux semi-dedicated packages come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the web accelerator tool and increase the load speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 megabytes of memory particularly for the Varnish accelerator at no additional charge and you will be able to add an instance with no more than a few clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server plans. If you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be available to you right away. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide whether lots of data will be cached for one website or whether the memory will be used by several Internet sites. Hepsia will allow you to reboot or to disable any instance, to check the system log file for it or to delete the cached files using 1-click buttons. To get the most out of Varnish, you can assign a dedicated IP to the websites which will employ it.
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Varnish in VPS Web Hosting
You can take advantage of Varnish with any of our
virtual private server packages at no additional cost, since the caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The only condition is that the VPS must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your websites with just a couple of mouse clicks. Each VPS package includes a different amount of system memory for caching purposes, but you’ll have at least several hundred MB, which is enough even for multiple large-scale sites. Soon after you activate Varnish, it’ll begin caching the content that your visitors access, so you’ll notice the considerably better site loading speeds and the decreased load on your VPS very soon. The caching platform will permit you to use a less costly VPS, as you won’t require that many resources to warrant the proper operation of your sites even if you run large-size sites with multiple visitors. Best results are achieved if the sites that use Varnish also use a dedicated IP.
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Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting
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Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that are ordered with the custom Hepsia website hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated server. The Varnish data caching platform can be configured and administered with ease from the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with interface and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you can check a detailed log, create or reboot an instance, delete the cached files associated with any site and much more. Shortly after you configure Varnish for a given domain or sub-domain, it will begin caching the web pages loaded by the visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you will observe a substantially faster site performance as well as a lowered load on your dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at three gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload distribution purposes even if you host an immense number of Internet sites on the server.