Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of quicker response times. It’s sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and an Internet browser. When a visitor accesses a particular page, the content is requested by the web browser, and then the server handles this browser request and returns the necessary information. If Varnish is activated for a website, it will cache the pages on the first request and if the user visits a cached page once more, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the web server. The increased loading speed is an end result of the significantly faster response time that Varnish offers as compared to any server software. Of course, this does not mean that the visitors will continue seeing the exact same content again and again, as any modification on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish stores in its system memory.

Varnish in Hosting

You can make use of Varnish’s potential and accelerate your websites’ speed irrespective of the hosting package that you’ve picked and you can activate and set up the platform with a couple of clicks via the intuitive GUI offered by our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 MB and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and the other way around. If you have plenty of content on a given Internet site and you get lots of site visitors, more system memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will offer you simple one-click controls for deleting or rebooting any instance, for erasing the cache associated with any Internet site and for seeing in-depth logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is a feature, which is offered by default with all semi-dedicated hosting offered by our company and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It is available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The content caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can employ it with any Internet site that you host in the semi-dedicated account. If you need more than that, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The very same Upgrades section will allow you to create more instances as well, in case you wish to use Varnish with multiple websites. The two things can be added separately – you can cache the content of one single resource-heavy Internet site or run several different Internet sites with the default memory allocation. You can take full advantage of Varnish in case you have a dedicated IP address and you can get one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you total control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you will be able to delete the cached content, to view a log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS

You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with all our VPS when you choose Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is offered by default and the memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache your website content depends on the given VPS plan that you have selected, but even with the less powerful packages, you’ll have at least several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal only for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to optimize the performance of multiple Internet sites. It will take some time for you to see the effects, since the Varnish platform caches the content that visitors access, but soon after that you will notice the substantially decreased load on the VPS server and the increased site load speed. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to make use of a less powerful VPS plan for websites which would usually require a more pricey hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

You can use Varnish in order to improve the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready for use at no additional charge, but you’ll also exert total control over it via Hepsia’s simple-to-use graphical interface. It will take just one single mouse click to start or terminate an instance or to clear the cached files associated with any site that is using Varnish and if you’re more proficient, you can also browse the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of virtual memory for site content caching purposes, so even in case you run numerous websites on your dedicated machine and they all use the caching platform, the difference in their overall performance will be observable. You will only need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever content the website visitors load on their end. The platform works best if the websites use a dedicated IP, but since our servers include 3 charge-free IPs, you’ll have everything you need.