How to enable Varnish on Hypernode

Customers with a Trial, Pelican M (or up), Falcon S (or up) or Eagle plan can use Varnish to boost the performance of their application. After enabling Varnish, you still need to configure both Varnish and your application. We have support documentation per application available to guide you through the process:

Enable Varnish 4.0 or 6.0

At Hypernode it’s possible to enable Varnish 4.0 or 6.0 via the Control Panel, Service Panel or CLI. The Varnish version needed depends on the application version you’re running.

Enable Varnish via the Control Panel

Click on “Hypernodes”
Click on “Caching”
Select the Hypernode
Click on “Enable Varnish”

Enable Varnish via the Service Panel

Log in on the Service Panel
Go to the tab “Instellingen”
Click on “Varnish”
Use the switch to enable Varnish

Configure Varnish 6.0 via the hypernode-systemctl tool

hypernode-systemctl settings varnish_version 6.0

Or if you want to switch to Varnish 4.0 hypernode-systemctl settings varnish_version 4.0

Enable Varnish via the hypernode-systemctl tool

hypernode-systemctl settings varnish_enabled true

Configure Varnish on the Vhost

Since the introduction of **hypernode-manage-vhosts**Hypernode may work somewhat different than you might be used to. With HMV enabled, it requires one more step to configure Varnish for your shop/vhost. Remember, for each domain, there should be a vhost created. You can list an overview of all configured vhosts with hypernode-manage-vhosts --list. While you do that, note that there is a column, “varnish”. By default this is set to “False”. Which means that Varnish isn’t configured for this vhost. You can configure Varnish for the vhost by running the following command:

hypernode-manage-vhosts EXAMPLE.COM --varnish

Configure Varnish on your application

The last step will be configuring Varnish on your application. Below you can find our available documentation for configuring Varnish on the application you’re using: