Web Accelerators
Learn what precisely web accelerators are and how you are able to benefit from them to improve your web site’s performance.
A web accelerator is a server-side program that accelerates a website. Such a piece of software could operate in different ways based on the website content, but in the typical situation all such applications cache content and deliver it instead of the web server. This is valid for both static and dynamic sites because the cached content can be simple text or database responses and the benefit of using a web accelerator is not just the faster loading website, but also the decreased overall load on the machine. This way, you may employ a lower-end hosting plan that'll also cost less while your site visitors can still enjoy superior browsing speeds. Handful of service providers offer web accelerators with their hosting packages and they usually offer only one, while we offer 3 different ones that will permit you to improve the performance of any kind of Internet site noticeably.
Web Accelerators in Shared Website Hosting
Our shared website hosting plans include 3 web accelerators that you will be able to employ depending on the Internet sites that you'd like to run. Memcached is employed to cache database or API calls and responses, which can significantly improve the efficiency of dynamic sites. Varnish is a popular HTTP accelerator that caches web pages and provides them to the visitors much faster than the web server after the first time they open them. Node.js is an event-driven platform employed for scalable real-time applications for example booking websites. Based on the Internet hosting solution you select, these three apps may already be included or might be optional upgrades. In either case, you shall be able to choose how many instances of every one of them shall be at your disposal and how much memory they ought to use. These accelerators are supplied only by a handful of hosting firms, including ours, and they can increase the speed of your web apps considerably.