Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches content for quicker response times. It’s sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and its users. When a site visitor accesses a certain webpage, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the web server processes this request and returns the required info. If Varnish is enabled for a given website, it will cache the pages on the first visit and if the user opens a cached page again, the information will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The boosted loading speed is a result of the substantially faster response speed that Varnish offers as compared with any web server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the website visitors will keep seeing the same content over and over again, as any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform caches in its memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our cloud hosting. You can add it to your account through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is available with all shared web hosting packages and you will get a rather simple-to-work-with GUI, which will grant you full control over the data caching platform. Using one-click fast-access buttons, you can reboot or stop any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be enabled for a certain site. You can also view an elaborate system log file or clear the cache for any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting package, you will be able to select the total amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for content caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for maximum performance, you can allocate a dedicated IP address to the sites that will use Varnish. This will permit you to get the most out of your Internet sites and to have a lot of happy site visitors.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish caching platform is part of the standard set of services that you will receive in case you decide to host your Internet sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your websites through our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that Varnish can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the sites that can use this caching platform at the same time. As these two things are not tied to each other, you can use a couple of sites with the default memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single site. Varnish performs best when you assign a dedicated IP address to the Internet sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you an easy means of rebooting any instance. In addition, you will be able to clear the cached content with just one mouse click.

Varnish in VPS

We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed VPS, so if you order a server with this hosting Control Panel, you will be able to make full use of the caching platform at no additional fee. The Varnish platform can utilize different amounts of system memory for caching purposes depending on the very VPS plan that you’ve selected on the order page, but at any rate, this amount will not be less than several hundred MB. This is more than enough to boost the performance of several large websites, so the better site load speeds and the decreased load on the Virtual Private Server will be noticeable. The result may not be evident instantly, as the Varnish platform will require some time to cache the content that visitors request, but soon after you activate it, you will witness its full potential. This platform will permit you to use a less powerful Virtual Private Server and to give less cash to get the very same performance you’d get with a higher-end virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

All Linux dedicated hosting that are ordered with the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the dedicated server. The Varnish caching platform can be configured and managed with no effort via the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with interface and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you can view a detailed system log, create or reboot an instance, clear the cached data associated with any site and much, much more. Soon after you configure the Varnish platform for a specific domain or sub-domain, it will begin caching the web pages browsed by your site visitors and as soon as it has cached enough content, you will perceive a substantially better website performance plus a reduced load on your server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the software platform for load balancing purposes even if you run a huge number of sites on the server.