Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of faster response times. It’s sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and a browser. When a site visitor loads a given page, the content is requested by the web browser, and then the server handles this browser request and delivers the necessary info. If Varnish is enabled for a particular website, it will cache its pages on the first visit and in case the visitor visits a cached page once again, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The accelerated loading speed is an end result of the considerably faster response speed that Varnish offers compared to any web server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the visitors will keep being served the exact same content over and over again, because any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish caches in its system memory.

Varnish in Website Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with all our website hosting. You can add it to your web hosting account from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is available with all shared plans and you’ll get an amazingly user-friendly graphical interface, which will give you full control over the caching platform. Using one-click quick-access buttons, you can restart or deactivate any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be enabled for a specific website. You can also see a detailed system log or clear the cache associated with any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting package, you will be able to select the maximum amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for data caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for top performance, you can get a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. This will permit you to take full advantage of your websites and to have many satisfied website users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering will permit you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated account has been opened, as the data caching platform comes by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can use this load balancing software once your site has been published to the web. In case you’re in need of more memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine immediately. You can also increase the number of the sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly linked to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you’ll have more versatility. The platform will seriously decrease the server load caused by your websites, so your visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You will be able to manage Varnish with ease from your Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access controls. You’ll be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached files for any of your Internet sites or to see system log files.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

We provide Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped VPS hosting services, so if you obtain a server with this hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to take full advantage of the caching platform at no additional fee. Varnish can use different amounts of system memory for caching purposes depending on the specific plan that you have chosen during the subscription process, but in any case, this amount will not be less than several hundred megabytes. This is quite enough to boost the overall performance of several frequently visited Internet sites, so the better website loading speeds and the lowered load on your Virtual Private Server will be perceivable. The result may not be evident momentarily, as Varnish will need a certain amount of time to cache the site content that visitors browse, but soon after you set it up, you’ll witness its full potential. This platform will permit you to use a lower-end VPS and to give less money to get the exact same performance you would get with a more powerful virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll acquire the Varnish content caching platform at no extra charge and you will have complete control over it via a pretty time and effort saving graphical interface – you will be able to start, to delete or to restart an instance, to check an exhaustive system log, to clear the cached content associated with any site and much, much more. The Varnish platform will have several GB of system memory at its disposal, so even if you own regularly visited sites with many visitors, you’ll notice the substantially faster website loading times and the decreased load on the machine. This will happen soon after you begin using the Varnish platform, since it will need some time to cache the web pages that people browse. You can get the most out of the platform’s potential in case the sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that your server includes a few IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of the monthly fee for the machine itself.