Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of quicker access. It’s sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and its users. When a site visitor loads a particular page, the content is requested by the web browser, and then the server handles this request and sends back the required info. If Varnish is enabled for a specific website, it will cache the pages at the first request and if the visitor opens a cached page again, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The increased load speed is a result of the significantly faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared with any web server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the users will keep being served the very same content over and over again, as any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform stores in its memory.

Varnish in Hosting

You can unleash Varnish’s potential and increase the speed of your sites regardless of the hosting package that you’ve selected and you can enable and configure the content caching platform with several clicks of the mouse through the simple-to-use GUI offered by our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many sites will use Varnish, in other words – the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 MB and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can add more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got plenty of content on a particular website and you attract a lot of website visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will provide you with simple 1-click controls for terminating or rebooting any instance, for deleting the cache for any site and for checking in-depth logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer will permit you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated account has been created, as the caching platform comes by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can make use of this load balancing software once your site has been built. If you need more system memory, you can order 32 MB at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server immediately. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly bound to the amount of system memory that you use, which means that you’ll have more freedom. The caching platform will significantly decrease the load produced by your websites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish platform without any effort via the Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/delete any of the instances that you have, to clear the cache for any of your sites or to see system log files.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can take full advantage of the workload balancing capabilities of Varnish with all our Linux VPS hosting in case you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is offered by default and the amount of system memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache your website content is dependent upon the particular plan that you have picked, but even with the lower-end packages, you will have at least several hundred MB of memory at your disposal exclusively for data caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to improve the performance of multiple Internet sites. It will take a little time for you to see the results, since Varnish caches the content that site visitors access, but shortly thereafter you will notice the significantly less load on the virtual machine and the improved Internet site loading speed. Varnish will permit you to make use of a lower-end Virtual Private Server package for websites which would usually need a more expensive web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

All dedicated servers hosting packages which are ordered with the custom-developed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the dedicated server. The Varnish content caching platform can be enabled and managed effortlessly through the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-use graphical interface and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you can browse an in-depth system log, add or reboot an instance, clear the cached content for any website and much, much more. Soon after you activate Varnish for a certain domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the webpages accessed by the visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you’ll perceive a substantially faster site performance plus a lowered load on the server. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at three gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the platform for load balancing purposes even if you host a lot of websites on your dedicated server.