Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches information for faster access. It’s occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and a web browser. When a website visitor opens a particular web page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and delivers the required data. If Varnish is enabled for a website, it will cache the pages on the very first request and if the visitor visits a cached page once again, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The increased speed is a result of the much faster response time that Varnish offers as compared to any server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the site visitors will continue seeing the exact same content over and over again, as any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish stores in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

You can make use of Varnish’s full potential and improve the speed of your websites irrespective of the shared web hosting plan that you’ve chosen and you can activate and set up the content caching platform with a few clicks of the mouse through the easy-to-use interface offered by our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you will be able to select two different things – how many sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can use more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you have a lot of content on a given Internet site and you draw a lot of website visitors, more memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use Varnish. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with easy 1-click buttons for deactivating or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache for each site and for viewing in-depth logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Linux semi-dedicated servers offered by us will allow you to employ Varnish once your brand new semi-dedicated account has been set up, since the content caching platform comes by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can make use of this workload distribution software once you launch your website. In case you need more 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 right away. You can also increase the number of the sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not bound directly to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll enjoy more freedom. The platform will substantially decrease the server load that your websites produce, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish caching platform without any effort via the Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You will be able to start/terminate any of the instances that you’ve got, to clear the cache associated with any of your websites or to see system log files.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take advantage of Varnish with each of our VPS server packages at no extra fee, since the platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The sole prerequisite is that the VPS server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your sites with only a few clicks. Each VPS package offers a different amount of system memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes, which is sufficient even for multiple resource-consuming sites. Shortly after you activate the Varnish platform, it’ll start caching the content that your visitors browse, so you will notice the considerably faster Internet site load speeds and the reduced load on the VPS server in no time. The caching platform will permit you to use a less high-priced VPS, since you won’t need that much power to sustain the proper operation of your websites even if you manage busy sites with multiple visitors. Maximum results are accomplished if the Internet sites that use the Varnish caching platform also use a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish to boost the loading speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready for use at no additional fee, but you will also exert total control over it via Hepsia’s simple-to-use GUI. It’ll take only one click to start or discontinue an instance or to clear the cached files associated with any Internet site that is using the Varnish platform and if you are more advanced, you can also see the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 GB of memory for web content caching purposes, so even in case you host plenty of websites on your dedicated machine and they all use the caching platform, the difference in their overall performance will be evident. You’ll simply have to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever content the site visitors load on their end. The platform performs best when the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that our servers include three cost-free IP addresses, you will have all that you need.