Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web app accelerator tool that can boost the load speed of a site by up to 1000 percent, based on its content. Anytime a visitor opens any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor accesses it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load substantially faster, as Varnish can deliver content many times faster than any web server software. The end result is a substantially faster loading page, which leads to a greatly improved website browsing experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual website, the content that Varnish caches in its system memory is updated too, so the visitors won’t end up seeing outdated data.

Varnish in Hosting

In case you host your websites under a hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with several mouse clicks via your Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our hosting packages and you can choose how many websites will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they’re not directly linked to each other, so you can decide if you need plenty of memory for a single large-sized 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 address. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/cancel an instance, clear the cached data independently for each site that employs Varnish or see an exhaustive system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All our semi-dedicated packages include Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web app accelerator tool and boost the loading speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 MB of memory exclusively for the Varnish accelerator at no additional charge and you’ll be able to create an instance with no more than a few clicks of the mouse through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated packages. In case you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal instantly. You can also add more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide if plenty of content will be cached for one site or if the available memory will be utilized by different Internet sites. Hepsia will enable you to restart or to cancel any instance, to see the system log file for it or to delete the cached files using one-click buttons. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the websites that will use it.

Varnish in VPS

You can use Varnish with any of our virtual private server plans at no extra cost, as the platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The one and only prerequisite is that the virtual machine must come with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you will be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Each Virtual Private Server package offers a different amount of system memory for content caching purposes, but you will get minimum several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for multiple resource-requiring websites. Shortly after you set up Varnish, it’ll begin caching the content that your website visitors open, so you’ll notice the considerably faster webpage loading times and the lowered load on your VPS very soon. The caching platform will allow you to use a less high-priced server, since you won’t need that much power to guarantee the uninterrupted operation of your sites even if you manage larger websites with a lot of visitors. Optimum results are accomplished if the sites that use the Varnish caching platform also use a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

All dedicated servers hosting packages that are ordered with the custom Hepsia website hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the machine. The Varnish caching platform can be set up and administered with ease from the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface and, with no more than a click, you can browse an elaborate log, add or reboot an instance, clear the cached data associated with any website and much, much more. Shortly after you configure the Varnish platform for a particular domain or subdomain, it will start caching the web pages browsed by the visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you will perceive a substantially faster site performance in addition to a decreased load on your dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at three gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the software platform for load balancing purposes even if you host a lot of websites on the dedicated server.