Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a website accelerator tool that can improve the loading speed of a site by up to 1000%, based on the content itself. Whenever a visitor opens any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor opens it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will open considerably faster, as Varnish can serve information many times faster than any server software. The end result will be a considerably faster loading page, which leads to a much-improved browsing experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual website, the content that Varnish keeps in its memory is updated too, so the visitors will never end up seeing outdated data.

Varnish in Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with all our hosting plans. You can add it to your hosting account through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with all shared hosting packages and you’ll get a really easy-to-use interface, which will grant you full control over the data caching system. Using one-click fast-access controls, you can reboot or disable any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be enabled for a specific site. You can also check an elaborate log file or erase the cache for any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your shared web hosting plan, you’ll be able to select the maximum amount of memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for maximum performance, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the websites that will use Varnish. This will enable you to get the most out of your Internet sites and to have many satisfied site users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish content caching platform is part of the standard set of services that you will get in case you decide to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your Internet sites via our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this 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 simultaneously. As these two things are not bound to each other, you can use several Internet sites with the default memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single web site. The Varnish platform performs best when you use a dedicated IP address for the websites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you an easy means of restarting any instance. In addition, you will be able to clear the cached contents with just a click.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take full advantage of the workload balancing capabilities of Varnish with each of our VPS servers if you choose Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes by default and the system memory that it will be able to use to cache the content of your sites is dependent on the particular Virtual Private Server plan that you’ve selected, but even with the less powerful plans, you’ll have no less than several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal only for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to optimize the overall performance of numerous websites. It’ll take some time for you to notice the effects, since Varnish caches the content that website visitors request, but soon after that you’ll notice the significantly less load on your server and the improved website browsing speed. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to make use of a lower-end Virtual Private Server package for Internet sites that would typically need a more costly hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All Linux dedicated web hosting plans that are ordered with the custom-developed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the dedicated server. The Varnish platform can be set up and administered with ease through Hepsia’s simple-to-navigate interface and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you can view a detailed system log, add or reboot an instance, delete the cache for any website and much, much more. Shortly after you set up Varnish for a specific domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the webpages requested by the site visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you’ll witness a tremendously faster site performance plus a reduced server load. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the software platform for load distribution purposes even if you host plenty of Internet sites on the dedicated machine.