Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches information for faster access. It is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and a browser. When a site visitor accesses a specific page, its content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and sends back the needed information. If Varnish is activated for a particular site, it will cache the pages on the first request and in case the user opens a cached page for a second time, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the web server. The boosted loading speed is a result of the substantially faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers compared with any web server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the website visitors will continue being served the exact same content over and over again, because any change on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform stores in its memory.
Varnish in Shared Web Hosting
Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each Linux shared web hosting plan and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your shared website hosting account via the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two separate things that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the sites that you wish to employ Varnish for and the second one, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, indicates the total amount of data that the data caching platform can store at any given moment. Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with interface will allow you to stop or to restart any instance, to view detailed logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For optimum results, you can use a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your site will load significantly faster, meaning more satisfied visitors and prospective customers.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
All our semi-dedicated servers include Varnish by default, so you can take advantage of the accelerator and boost the loading speed of any site that you host on our platform. You will get 64 megabytes of memory dedicated to Varnish at no extra fee and you’ll be able to activate an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server packages. In case you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in 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 plenty of content will be cached for a single website or whether the available memory will be utilized by multiple websites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to restart or to disable any instance, to see the system log for it or to clear the cached files using one-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the Internet sites that will use it.
Varnish in VPS Servers
You can use the workload balancing potential of Varnish with each of our Linux VPS plans when you select Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform is offered by default and the system memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache your site content depends upon the particular plan that you’ve chosen, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have at least several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal exclusively for caching purposes. This amount is enough to enhance the work of multiple sites. It’ll take some time for you to notice the effects, since Varnish caches the content that visitors open, but soon after that you’ll notice the substantially reduced load on your server and the increased site loading speed. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to make use of a less powerful VPS package for websites that would typically need a more expensive hosting service.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll get the Varnish platform at no additional charge and you will have full control over it via a truly simple-to-work-with graphical interface – you’ll be able to start, to discontinue or to restart an instance, to view a comprehensive log, to delete the cache for any website and much more. The Varnish caching platform will have several gigabytes of memory at its disposal, so even if you manage traffic-consuming sites with many visitors, you will notice the considerably better website loading speeds and the decreased load on your dedicated server. This will happen shortly after you begin using the Varnish platform, as it will need a certain amount of time to cache the site content that users request. You can make the most of the platform’s capabilities if the websites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your dedicated server includes a few IPs by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of the monthly fee for the machine itself.