Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches data for quicker access. It is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and an Internet browser. When a visitor loads a certain page, its content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and delivers the needed info. If Varnish is activated for a site, it will cache its pages on the first request and in case the visitor accesses a cached page for a second time, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The improved load speed is an end result of the significantly faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers compared with any server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the site visitors will keep seeing the very same content again and again, since any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform stores in its system memory.

Varnish in Website Hosting

If you host your sites under a website hosting account with our company, you will be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse through your hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared hosting packages and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they’re not directly tied to each other, so you can decide whether you want lots of memory for one large website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP. Using the Control Panel, you can quickly start/restart/disable an instance, clear the cached data individually for each website which uses Varnish or check a comprehensive log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish caching platform is an essential part of the basic service set that you will obtain if you choose to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your websites through our advanced Hepsia Control Panel. The default amount of memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the Internet sites that can use this caching platform simultaneously. As these two things are not bound to each other, you can use several instances with the default amount of memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for one single website. The Varnish caching platform performs best if you set a dedicated IP for the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with a simple means of rebooting any instance. Also, you’ll be able to delete the cached files with just one mouse click.

Varnish in VPS

You can use the workload balancing potential of Varnish with all our VPS when you select Hepsia as your Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes by default and the amount of memory that it will be able to use to cache the content of your websites is dependent on the particular VPS package that you’ve picked, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have at least several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal only for caching purposes. This amount is enough to boost the performance of multiple Internet sites. It’ll take a little time for you to distinguish the results, as the Varnish platform caches the content that visitors browse, but shortly after that you’ll notice the considerably less load on your virtual machine and the enhanced site loading speed. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to use a lower-end VPS plan for websites which would usually require a more expensive web hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

You can use Varnish to accelerate any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no additional charge, but you’ll also exert full control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface. It will take only one click of the mouse to start or discontinue an instance or to delete the cached files for any site that is using the Varnish platform and if you’re more experienced, you can also browse the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than three gigabytes of virtual memory for data caching purposes, so even in case you host a vast number of sites on your dedicated server and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be detectable. You will only need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever content the site visitors load on their end. The platform performs best when the websites use a dedicated IP address, but since our servers include 3 free-of-cost IPs, you will have all that you need.