Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches information for quicker response times. It’s occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and its users. When a site visitor opens a certain page, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the server handles this request and delivers the required info. If Varnish is activated for a certain website, it will cache its pages on the very first request and if the user visits a cached page again, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the server. The accelerated load speed is an end result of the substantially faster response time that Varnish offers compared with any web server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the visitors will keep seeing the same content over and over again, as any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish keeps in its system memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

If you host your websites in a cloud hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of mouse clicks from your Control Panel. The data caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our web hosting plans and you can select the number of the websites that will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be available for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they aren’t directly tied to each other, so you can choose whether you need plenty of memory for one large site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of the Varnish caching platform if the websites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can easily start/reboot/cancel an instance, clear the cached content independently for each website that employs Varnish or view a detailed system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish caching platform is an essential part of the default service set that you’ll acquire if you choose to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can enable it for any of your Internet sites via our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default system memory that Varnish can use to cache data is 64 MB, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the sites that can use this caching platform simultaneously. Since these two things aren’t linked to each other, you can use a few Internet sites with the default memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single web site. The Varnish platform performs best when you assign a dedicated IP address to the Internet sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with an easy means of restarting any instance. Also, you will be able to clear the cached contents with only one single click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We provide Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped VPS hosting service, so if you order a VPS with this web hosting Control Panel, you will be able to make use of the content caching platform at no additional fee. Varnish can use different amounts of memory for content caching purposes based on the specific setup that you’ve selected during the subscription process, but at any rate, this amount will not be less than several hundred megabytes. This is more than enough to optimize the performance of a number of large-sized sites, so the better web page load speeds and the less load will be discernible. The effect may not be visible right away, since the Varnish platform will require some time to cache the site content that people browse, but soon after you activate it, you’ll witness its full capacity. This caching platform will permit you to use a less powerful VPS server and to pay less cash to get the exact same performance you’d get with a more powerful machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated servers that are ordered with the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the machine. The Varnish data caching platform can be configured and managed with no effort through Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with interface and, with no more than one click, you can check an in-depth log, create or reboot an instance, delete the cached data for any Internet site and much more. Soon after you activate Varnish for a particular domain or sub-domain, it will begin caching the webpages accessed by the visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you will observe a tremendously better website performance and a lowered load on your server. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the platform for load distribution purposes even if you host a vast number of sites on the server.