Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator that can increase the speed of a website by up to 1000%, depending on the content itself. Each 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 if the visitor opens it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will open tremendously faster, as the Varnish caching platform can serve content many times faster than any web server software. The result is a much faster loading website, which leads to an immensely improved browsing experience. When any of the cached pages is updated on the live Internet site, the content that Varnish stores in its memory is ‘refreshed’ too, so the visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date information.

Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your websites in a cloud web hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a couple of clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared web hosting packages and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can decide if you need a lot of memory for one large-size site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of the Varnish caching platform if the sites use a dedicated IP. Using the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/discontinue an instance, clear the cached content independently for each site that employs the Varnish platform or check an in-depth system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Linux semi-dedicated servers that we offer will allow you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand new account has been created, since the data caching platform comes by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is activated, so you can use this workload balancing software as soon as your site has been published to the web. In case you need more system memory, you can get 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine in an instant. You can also increase the number of the sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll have more freedom. The platform will greatly reduce the load on the semi-dedicated machine that your websites cause, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish platform with no effort via your Control Panel using quick-access controls. You will be able to start/disable any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached content associated with any of your websites or to view system logs.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-equipped VPS hosting service, so in case you order a VPS with this web hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to make the most of the content caching platform at no extra fee. Varnish can use different amounts of system memory for data caching purposes depending on the particular server configuration that you have chosen during the registration process, but in any case, this amount won’t be less than several hundred MB. This is more than enough to improve the work of a number of resource-consuming websites, so the better page load speeds and the less load on your server will be perceivable. The result may not be observable instantly, as the Varnish platform will require some time to cache the website content that visitors browse, but shortly after you enable it, you’ll feel its full capacity. This platform will allow you to use a less powerful VPS server and to give less money to get the very same performance you’d get with a higher-end virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you want a more powerful web hosting solution and you order any of the Linux dedicated service that we’re offering, you can use the Varnish content caching platform to boost the work of your websites at no additional cost on the condition that the dedicated machine is ordered with our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its intuitive graphical interface will permit you to keep an eye on system processes, to clear the cached data or to reboot any instance with one single click. The minimal amount of system memory that the caching platform can employ to cache Internet site content is 3 GB, which is quite enough for an enormous number of resource-requiring sites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with a substantial system load while your Internet site visitors are having a smooth browsing experience. Since your server will include several dedicated IP addresses, you’ll be able to use Varnish’s maximum capacity.