Varnish
Varnish can tremendously raise the overall performance of your websites. Learn how to take full advantage of its power.
Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches data for the sake of quicker access. It’s occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and its users. When a website visitor opens a specific webpage, the content is requested by the web browser, and then the server handles this request and returns the required data. If Varnish is enabled for a site, it will cache the pages at the first visit and in case the visitor accesses a cached page again, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The increased loading speed is a result of the much faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared with any server software. Of course, this does not mean that the website visitors will keep seeing the exact same content again and again, because any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish stores in its system memory.
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Varnish in Website Hosting
In case you host your Internet sites in a
website hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse via your Control Panel. The platform comes as an upgrade with all our web hosting plans and you can choose how many sites will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they’re not linked directly to each other, so you can decide if you need plenty of memory for a single large site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can quickly start/restart/cancel an instance, clear the cached contents individually for each website that employs Varnish or see an in-depth log file.
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Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
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semi-dedicated servers offered by us will permit you to employ Varnish once your new account has been created, since the content caching platform is offered by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can make use of this load distribution software once you launch your website. In case you are in need of more system memory, you can get 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated server momentarily. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of memory that you use, which means that you’ll enjoy more versatility. The caching platform will immensely reduce the load on the semi-dedicated server caused by your sites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You will be able to manage Varnish without effort via the Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You will be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached files for any of your websites or to view system logs.
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Varnish in Dedicated Servers
You can employ Varnish to boost the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a
dedicated server with our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on it. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready to be used at no additional cost, but you will also exert complete control over it through Hepsia’s user-friendly GUI. It’ll take only one mouse click to start or terminate an instance or to clear the cache associated with any site that’s using Varnish and in case you’re more experienced, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of system memory for website content caching purposes, so even in case you host a vast number of websites on your server and they all use the platform, the difference in their performance will be visible. You will only need to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever webpages the visitors load on their end. The Varnish platform works best if the sites use a dedicated IP address, but since our servers come with three cost-free IPs, you will have all that you need.