Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a website accelerator tool that can increase the speed of a website by up to one thousand percent, depending on its content. Whenever a visitor accesses any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server if the visitor opens it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will load substantially faster, as the Varnish caching platform can deliver information many times faster than any server software. The result is a substantially faster loading page, which leads to an immensely improved browsing experience. When any of the cached webpages is updated on the live site, the content that Varnish stores in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ too, so the users won’t see outdated content.

Varnish in Web Hosting

You can unleash Varnish’s full potential and enhance the loading speed of your sites irrespective of the web hosting package that you have chosen and you can enable and configure the content caching platform with several mouse clicks from the easy-to-use graphical interface offered by our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many websites will employ the Varnish caching platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can use more instances with less memory and the other way around. If you have plenty of content on a certain site and you gain lots of website visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will provide you with easy one-click buttons for terminating or restarting any instance, for erasing the cache associated with any site and for viewing detailed logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we are offering will permit you to employ Varnish once your brand-new semi-dedicated account has been opened, as the platform comes by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this load balancing software once your website has been published on the Internet. If you need more system memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine in an instant. You can also increase the number of the sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll enjoy more freedom. The caching platform will immensely reduce the load on the machine produced by your websites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish platform effortlessly through your Control Panel using fast-access controls. You’ll be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cache for any of your sites or to see system logs.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you will get Varnish at no extra cost and you’ll have total control over it via a pretty simple-to-use GUI – you’ll be able to start, to cancel or to restart an instance, to check an exhaustive log, to delete the cached data associated with any Internet site and much, much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you have resource-requiring websites with plenty of visitors, you will notice the tremendously faster web page load speeds and the reduced server load. This will happen shortly after you begin using Varnish, since it will need some time to cache the site content that visitors access. You can make the most of the platform’s potential if the Internet sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that your server comes with a few IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.