Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for quicker response times. It is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and its users. When a website visitor opens a specific web page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the server handles this browser request and delivers the needed info. If Varnish is enabled for a specific site, it will cache its pages on the very first request and if the user visits a cached page once again, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The increased loading speed is an end result of the much faster response time that the Varnish platform offers compared with any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the site visitors will keep being served the exact same content again and again, because any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish caches in its memory.

Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites under a cloud web hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse through your Control Panel. The caching platform comes as an upgrade with all our shared web hosting plans and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they aren’t tied directly to each other, so you can decide whether you need plenty of memory for one single large-size website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of Varnish if the websites use a dedicated IP. With the Control Panel, you can swiftly start/reboot/remove an instance, clear the cached contents independently for each site that employs the Varnish platform or check a detailed system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is offered by default with all Linux semi-dedicated packages that we’re offering and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any site that you host in your semi-dedicated account. In case you are in need of more, you can increase the system memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same section will permit you to create more instances as well, in case you wish to use the Varnish caching platform with multiple websites. The two upgrades can be added independently – you can cache the content of one resource-demanding Internet site or run a number of Internet sites with the default memory quota. You can take full advantage of the Varnish caching platform in case you have a dedicated IP address and you can get one with your semi-dedicated package as well. Hepsia will give you total control over the platform and, with no more than one single click, you’ll be able to clear the cached data, to see a log or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS

Varnish is included by default with all Linux VPS packages offered by us given that the machine is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can boost the work of your sites with only a couple of mouse clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a less powerful plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you have several websites, you’ll notice a considerable decrease in the server load and a significantly better site load speed. The Varnish platform will need to work for a little while while the visitors navigate the pages and as soon as the site content has been cached, you’ll observe the results. One of the advantages of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less expensive Virtual Private Server plan will do the very same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your Internet sites perform significantly better, but you’ll also spare some cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

You can use Varnish to accelerate any website that is hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready to be used at no additional charge, but you’ll also exert full control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-use GUI. It’ll take only one single click to start or deactivate an instance or to delete the cache associated with any Internet site that is using Varnish and in case you are more experienced, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of memory for website content caching purposes, so even in case you run lots of sites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be detectable. You’ll simply need to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the website visitors load on their end. The platform works best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers include 3 free-of-cost IP addresses, you’ll have everything you need.