At powerMonster.net it is ALWAYS our goal to provide our customers with the highest quality cPanel and DirectAdmin web hosting. For this reason, we are always evaluating new products and hardware upgrades to improve our service.
Over the past month, we have deployed the Web Server caching program called Varnish on the Seattle, Dallas, and New York Cloud Servers. Varnish is a memory-caching front-end for web servers that allows pages to be served directly, and extremely quickly, out of RAM instead of going through the initial process of creating a page, assembling it, and sending it off for every new customer. The end result is that this allows your clients to view your pages much faster than standard Apache, and even faster than what we were previously getting with Litespeed Web Server.
From our own internal testing, page load times on the 3 different setups have been 10-30% faster on Varnish than LiteSpeed, with lower load on the server as well.
We hope you enjoy the new performance!