Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, because it can increase the load speed of any website, at times even by 100%, based on the content itself. This tool is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to boost the access speed for the website visitors. Anytime a visitor opens a page on a certain site, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested information is sent as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the web pages that the website visitor browses and if any of them is opened once again, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The increase in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests considerably quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. If any content is edited meanwhile, the cached pages will also be updated the next time someone opens them.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux cloud packages. You can add it to your website hosting account through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is available with all shared hosting plans and you will get a really simple-to-use graphical interface, which will give you complete control over the caching platform. Using one-click quick-access controls, you can restart or terminate any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be activated for a certain website. You can also view an elaborate system log file or clear the cache associated with any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your shared web hosting plan, you will be able to choose the maximum amount of system memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for optimum performance, you can set a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have many happy users.