Varnish

Take a look at Varnish, learn more about web accelerators and discover exactly what it is that they do.

Varnish is a web application accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, because it can increase the loading speed of any site, at times even by 100%, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall load on the physical machine and to improve the browsing speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a specific website, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested data is delivered as a reply. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor browses and in case any of them is loaded for a second time, it is served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The performance improvement comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests tremendously quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any content is changed in the meantime, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time someone tries to access them.

: Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated packages that we offer will permit you to use Varnish once your brand-new account has been opened, since the caching platform is available by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the moment your account is activated, so you can make use of this workload distribution software as soon as your website has been launched online. If you need more system memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine straight away. You can also increase the number of the sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly bound to the amount of memory that you use, which means that you’ll have more flexibility. The caching platform will significantly decrease the load on the semi-dedicated machine generated by your websites, so your visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish platform with ease via your Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/terminate any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cache associated with any of your Internet sites or to see system log files.