Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches content for faster response times. It is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and its users. When a website visitor loads a given webpage, the content is requested by the browser, and then the server handles this browser request and returns the requested information. If Varnish is enabled for a given website, it will cache its pages at the first request and in case the user accesses a cached page again, the data will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the web server. The accelerated load speed is an end result of the substantially faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any web server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the visitors will keep seeing the very same content over and over again, since any modification on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish caches in its memory.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

You can make use of Varnish’s full potential and accelerate your sites’ loading speed irrespective of the shared website hosting plan that you’ve chosen and you can enable and configure the content caching platform with several mouse clicks through the intuitive GUI offered by our next-generation Hepsia Control Panel. During the process, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many sites will use Varnish, i.e. the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 MB and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got lots of content on a specific Internet site and you gain a lot of site visitors, more system memory will guarantee you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will offer you easy one-click buttons for cancelling or restarting any instance, for deleting the cache for any website and for seeing elaborate logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish content caching platform is an essential part of the basic set of services that you’ll get if you decide to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your sites via our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the sites that can use this caching platform at the same time. Since these two features are not bound to each other, you can use a few Internet sites with the default amount of memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single Internet site. Varnish performs best when you allocate a dedicated IP to the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will offer you a simple means of rebooting any instance. Also, you will be able to delete the cached files with just a click.

Varnish in VPS Web Hosting

The Varnish content caching platform comes by default with all VPS web hosting offered by our company given that the VPS server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can improve the work of your websites with just a couple of mouse clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a lower-end plan, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you’ve got several different sites, you will notice a noticeable decrease in the overall server load and a significantly better web page loading speed. The platform will need to work for a little while as the visitors navigate the site and once the website content has been cached, you’ll notice the effect. One of the advantages of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less costly package will do the very same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your websites perform substantially better, but you’ll also spare a certain amount of money.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll acquire the Varnish data caching platform at no extra charge and you will exert full control over it via an exceptionally intuitive graphical interface – you will be able to start, to discontinue or to reboot an instance, to view an in-depth system log, to clear the cached files for any Internet site and much more. The Varnish caching platform will have several gigabytes of system memory at its disposal, so even if you host resource-intensive websites with a huge number of visitors, you’ll notice the substantially better website load speeds and the reduced load on your dedicated server. This will happen soon after you begin using Varnish, since it will require a certain amount of time to cache the site content that users request. You can make the most of the platform’s potential if the Internet sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your dedicated server includes a few IP addresses by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly fee for the machine itself.