Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches information for faster response times. It’s occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and a browser. When a site visitor accesses a specific page, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the web server processes this request and delivers the needed info. If Varnish is activated for a website, it will cache its pages at the first request and if the visitor visits a cached page for a second time, the content will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the server. The accelerated loading speed is an end result of the significantly faster response time that the Varnish platform offers compared with any server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the site visitors will continue seeing the very same content over and over again, because any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform keeps in its system memory.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each cloud website hosting and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your shared website hosting account using the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two different things that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the memory. The first one pertains to the number of the websites that you wish to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, indicates the maximum amount of data that the platform can store at any particular moment. The Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-use interface will enable you to discontinue or to reboot any instance, to check exhaustive system logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For best results, you can use a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will open substantially faster, meaning more happy site users and prospective clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish content caching platform is an essential part of the default service set that you will receive in case you choose to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can configure it for any of your sites via our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of system memory that Varnish can use to cache content is 64 MB, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the Internet sites that can use this platform simultaneously. Since these two things aren’t linked to each other, you can use a few instances with the default memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for a single site. The Varnish caching platform works best if you assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you an easy means of restarting any instance. Furthermore, you’ll be able to clear the cached files with only one single click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS Servers

The Varnish content caching platform comes by default with each of the VPS servers that we offer as long as the Virtual Private Server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can enhance the performance of your websites with only a few clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the package, the more memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a lower-end plan, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you’ve got a number of sites, you will notice an enormous decrease in the server load and a significantly better web page load speed. The Varnish platform will have to work for a little while while the users navigate the site and once the site content has been cached, you’ll distinguish the result. One of the pros of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less costly VPS package will accomplish the exact same job as a more expensive one without the caching platform, so not only will your sites work much better, but you will also spare some money.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish in order to speed up any site that is hosted on a dedicated server with us when 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 charge, but you’ll also have full control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-navigate GUI. It’ll take just one mouse click to start or delete an instance or to delete the cache associated with any Internet site that’s using Varnish and if you are more competent, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of memory for content caching purposes, so even if you run a vast number of sites on your dedicated server and they all use the platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be perceivable. You’ll simply need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever pages the site visitors browse on their end. The Varnish platform works best when the sites use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that our dedicated servers come with 3 cost-free IP addresses, you’ll have everything you need.