Varnish
Varnish can really raise the performance of your websites. Learn how to take full advantage of its power.
Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for faster response times. It is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and an Internet browser. When a site visitor opens a given web page, the content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and delivers the requested content. If Varnish is activated for a certain website, it will cache its pages on the very first request and if the user accesses a cached page again, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The increased loading speed is a result of the substantially faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared with any server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the visitors will keep being served the same content over and over again, as any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish saves in its system memory.
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Varnish in Cloud Hosting
If you host your Internet sites under a
cloud hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with a couple of mouse clicks through your Control Panel. The caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our plans and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be available for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they’re not directly tied to each other, so you can decide whether you want plenty of memory for one large website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unlock the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/disable an instance, delete the cached content independently for each site that uses Varnish or check a comprehensive log file.
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Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
Varnish is included as standard with all
semi-dedicated plans that we’re offering and you can use it for workload balancing purposes. It is available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The data caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any Internet site that you host in your semi-dedicated server account. If you need more than that, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The very same Upgrades section will allow you to add more instances as well, in case you wish to use the Varnish platform with more websites. The two things can be added separately – you can cache the content of a single popular Internet site or run a number of Internet sites with the default memory quota. You can take full advantage of the Varnish caching platform if you’ve got a dedicated IP address and you can get one with your semi-dedicated server plan as well. Hepsia will give you full control over the caching platform and, with no more than a click, you’ll be able to clear the cached contents, to view a log or to reboot an instance.
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Varnish in VPS Servers
We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed
VPS plans, so in case you purchase a server with this hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to make the most of the caching platform at no extra charge. Varnish can utilize different amounts of system memory for content caching purposes depending on the specific plan that you have selected during the server order process, but nevertheless, this amount will not be less than several hundred megabytes. This is quite enough to boost the work of a handful of large Internet sites, so the better site browsing speeds and the lowered load on the VPS server will be discernible. The result may not be evident straight away, as Varnish will require a certain amount of time to cache the website content that visitors request, but soon after you enable it, you’ll observe its full potential. This caching platform will permit you to use a less powerful Virtual Private Server and to pay less money to get the same performance you would get with a more powerful virtual machine without Varnish.
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Varnish in Dedicated Servers
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Linux dedicated web hosting plans which are ordered with the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the machine. The Varnish data caching platform can be enabled and managed with ease via the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-navigate interface and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you can browse a comprehensive system log, create or reboot an instance, clear the cached data for any site and much more. Soon after you set up the Varnish platform for a given domain or sub-domain, it will begin caching the web pages requested by the website visitors and once it has cached enough content, you’ll perceive a considerably better website performance plus a decreased load on the dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the platform for workload balancing purposes even if you run a large number of websites on your dedicated server.