Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator tool that can improve the loading speed of a website by up to 1000 percent, depending on its content. Every time a visitor accesses 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. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will open tremendously faster, as the Varnish platform can serve data many times faster than any server software. The end result is a substantially faster loading website, which leads to a much-improved website browsing experience. When any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual Internet site, the info that Varnish keeps in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the users will not see old data.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

In case you host your sites under a shared hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse through your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our web hosting plans and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they’re not directly tied to each other, so you can decide if you need a lot of memory for one large website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unlock the full potential of Varnish in case the websites use a dedicated IP. Using the Control Panel, you can easily start/restart/discontinue an instance, delete the cached files independently for each website that uses the Varnish platform or view a detailed log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting offered by us will allow you to use Varnish once your brand new semi-dedicated account is active, since the data caching platform is available by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can make use of this load distribution software as soon as your website has been built. If you’re in need of more system memory, you can order 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine instantly. You can also increase the number of the sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll have more flexibility. The Varnish caching platform will enormously lower the load produced by your websites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish caching platform without efforts through the Control Panel using fast-access controls. You will be able to start/delete any of the instances that you’ve got, to clear the cache associated with any of your Internet sites or to see system log files.

Varnish in VPS Web Hosting

You can take full advantage of the load balancing potential of Varnish with all our Linux VPS web hosting services in case you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform is offered by default and the amount of memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache your site content depends on the given Virtual Private Server plan that you’ve chosen, but even with the less powerful packages, you’ll have at least several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal solely for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to improve the overall performance of multiple sites. It’ll take some time for you to see the effects, since the Varnish platform caches the content that site visitors browse, but shortly thereafter you will notice the considerably less load on the virtual server and the accelerated website browsing speed. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to use a less powerful Virtual Private Server package for Internet sites which would normally need a more high-priced hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

You can use Varnish to increase the speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on it. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready to be used at no extra cost, but you’ll also exert complete control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with GUI. It will take only one single click of the mouse to start or disable an instance or to clear the cached files associated with any Internet site that is using Varnish and if you’re more proficient, you can also browse the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of virtual memory for content caching purposes, so even if you run lots of Internet sites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their performance will be noticeable. You will just need to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever content the website visitors browse on their end. The Varnish platform works best if the sites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers include three free-of-charge IP addresses, you will have all that you need.