Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches information for quicker access. It is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and its users. When a visitor opens a particular page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and sends back the necessary info. If Varnish is enabled for a particular site, it will cache the pages on the first request and if the user visits a cached page once more, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The boosted speed is an end result of the substantially faster response time that Varnish offers as compared to any server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the users will continue being served the exact same content again and again, because any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish keeps in its memory.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a shared website hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with several mouse clicks through your Control Panel. The caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared hosting packages and you can select how many sites will use it and the maximum storage space that will be available for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they’re not tied directly to each other, so you can decide if you want a lot of memory for one large site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of Varnish in case the websites use a dedicated IP. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can quickly start/restart/discontinue an instance, clear the cached contents individually for each website that employs the Varnish platform or see an elaborate system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated servers that we are offering will permit you to use Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated server account has been opened, since the content caching platform is available by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this load distribution software once you launch your website. If you need more system memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine straight away. You can also increase the number of the websites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you’ll have more flexibility. The caching platform will enormously decrease the server load generated by your sites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform with ease from your Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/stop any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached data associated with any of your sites or to check system logs.

Varnish in VPS Servers

The Varnish content caching platform is included by default with all VPS web hosting plans that we are offering as long as the Virtual Private Server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can boost the performance of your sites with just a couple of mouse clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more system 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 own a number of sites, you will notice a significant reduction in the overall server load and a considerably better webpage load speed. The Varnish caching platform will have to work for a little while as the visitors navigate the site and once the content has been cached, you’ll observe the result. One of the benefits of using Varnish is that a lower-end and less expensive Virtual Private Server plan will accomplish the very same job as a more costly one without the caching platform, so not only will your websites work substantially better, but you will also save a certain amount of cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish to optimize the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the caching platform ready for use at no extra cost, but you’ll also have total control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-use graphical interface. It will take only one single click to start or stop an instance or to clear the cached files associated with any website that’s using the Varnish platform and if you are more tech-savvy, you can also view the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of system memory for web content caching purposes, so even if you run an immense number of sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their performance will be distinguishable. You will only need to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever pages the site visitors access on their end. The platform performs best when the sites use a dedicated IP, but since our servers include three free-of-cost IP addresses, you will have everything you need.