Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of faster access. It’s occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and a browser. When a site visitor opens a certain webpage, its content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the server handles this request and delivers the requested content. If Varnish is enabled for a site, it will cache its pages at the first request and in case the user opens a cached page again, the information will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the server. The increased loading speed is a result of the much faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared with any server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the visitors will keep seeing the very same content over and over again, since any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish saves in its memory.

Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux cloud web hosting services. You can add it to your hosting account from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is available with all shared web hosting packages and you’ll get a very easy-to-work-with graphical interface, which will grant you full control over the caching platform. Using 1-click fast-access controls, you can restart or shut down any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer work for a given site. You can also check an in-depth log or erase the cache for any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting package, you’ll be able to choose the maximum amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for data caching purposes and the number of the websites that will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for optimum performance, you can get a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. This will permit you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have lots of satisfied users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is a feature, which comes by default with all semi-dedicated hosting services that we offer and you can use it for workload balancing purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any site that you host in your account. If you’re in need of more than that, you can increase the system memory allocation. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 megabytes in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The same section will enable you to enable more instances as well, in case you would like to use the Varnish caching platform with more websites. The two things can be added separately – you can cache the content of one single regularly visited site or use several Internet sites with the default memory. You can take full advantage of Varnish in case you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated package as well. Hepsia will grant you full control over the platform and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you will be able to clear the cached contents, to view a log or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with each of our VPS hosting when you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The platform is available by default and the system memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache the content of your sites depends on the specific Virtual Private Server plan that you have selected, but even with the lower-end packages, you’ll have no less than several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal only for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient enough to optimize the performance of numerous websites. It’ll take some time for you to see the effects, since the Varnish platform caches the content that site visitors open, but soon thereafter you’ll notice the significantly decreased load on your Virtual Private Server and the improved website load speed. Varnish will permit you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server plan for Internet sites which would usually require a more costly web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you will get Varnish at no additional charge and you will exert total control over it via a rather easy-to-navigate interface – you will be able to start, to terminate or to reboot an instance, to check an exhaustive system log, to delete the cached content for any Internet site and much, much more. Varnish will have several gigabytes of system memory at its disposal, so even if you host resource-requiring websites with plenty of visitors, you will notice the much faster site load times and the lowered load on your dedicated machine. This will happen shortly after you start using the Varnish platform, since it will need a certain amount of time to cache the website content that people request. You can make the most of the platform’s potential in case the Internet sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your server includes several IPs by default, you won’t have to pay anything on top of your monthly fee for the server itself.