Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a website accelerator that can increase the speed of a website by up to 1000%, based on its content. Anytime a visitor opens any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor opens it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will open substantially faster, since the Varnish caching platform can serve data many times faster than any web server software. The end result will be a substantially faster loading website, which leads to an improved browsing experience. In case any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual site, the data that Varnish caches in its memory is ‘refreshed’ too, so the users will not see outdated info.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

You can unlock Varnish’s potential and optimize the load speed of your websites regardless of the cloud website hosting package that you have chosen and you can enable and set up the data caching platform with several mouse clicks via the user-friendly GUI offered by our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be able to select two different things – how many sites will use the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can add more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got lots of content on a particular website and you gain plenty of visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will provide you with easy 1-click controls for turning off or restarting any instance, for erasing the cache associated with any website and for checking detailed system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated service come with Varnish by default, so you can take advantage of the accelerator and optimize the speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 MB of memory dedicated to the Varnish accelerator at no additional cost and you can enable an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server plans. If you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal right away. You can also order more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide if a lot of data will be cached for one site or whether the available memory will be used by different websites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to restart or to stop any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to delete the cached files using single-click controls. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can get a dedicated IP address for the sites which will employ it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take full advantage of the workload balancing potential of Varnish with any of our Linux VPS web hosting service when you choose Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The platform is available by default and the amount of memory that it will be able to utilize to cache your website content depends on the specific Virtual Private Server package that you’ve picked, but even with the lower-end plans, you’ll have at least several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal only for data caching purposes. This amount is enough to improve the work of numerous sites. It’ll take some time for you to distinguish the effects, as the Varnish platform caches the content that visitors open, but after that you’ll notice the considerably reduced load on the VPS server and the increased Internet site browsing speed. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to use a lower-end plan for Internet sites that would typically need a more pricey hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will obtain the Varnish data caching platform at no extra charge and you will have full control over it through a pretty easy-to-work-with graphical interface – you will be able to start, to cancel or to restart an instance, to see a comprehensive log, to clear the cached data associated with any website and much more. The Varnish platform will have several GB of memory at its disposal, so even if you have traffic-intensive sites with multiple visitors, you will notice the substantially faster website loading times and the less load. This will become a fact soon after you begin using Varnish, since it will need a certain amount of time to cache the site content that users browse. You can get the most out of the platform’s capacity in case the Internet sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP address, but since your dedicated server comes with several IP addresses by default, you won’t have to pay anything on top of the monthly fee for the server itself.