Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches information for faster response times. It’s occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and its users. When a visitor opens a particular page, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and returns the needed content. If Varnish is activated for a given site, it will cache its pages at the first visit and in case the visitor accesses a cached page for a second time, the content will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the server. The improved load speed is a result of the substantially faster response time that Varnish offers compared to any web server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the site visitors will keep being served the same content over and over again, since any modification on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish keeps in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish’s potential and boost the loading speed of your websites irrespective of the shared hosting package that you have selected and you can enable and set up the content caching platform with a couple of clicks via the intuitive interface offered by our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the procedure, you will be able to choose two different things – how many websites will employ the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can add more instances and less memory and vice versa. In case you have lots of content on a certain Internet site and you receive plenty of site visitors, more memory will guarantee you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will provide you with easy 1-click buttons for removing or rebooting any instance, for erasing the cache for each site and for viewing comprehensive logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the website accelerator and optimize the speed of any site that you host on our platform. You’ll get 64 MB of memory particularly for Varnish at no extra charge and you’ll be able to activate an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated plans. In case you want more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal instantaneously. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if plenty of data will be cached for a single website or whether the memory will be utilized by different sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will enable you to reboot or to disable any instance, to view the system log file associated with it or to delete the cached data using single-click controls. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can assign a dedicated IP to the sites that will use it.

Varnish in VPS

You can take full advantage of the workload balancing capabilities of Varnish with each of our VPS packages when you select Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform comes by default and the memory that it will be able to utilize to cache your website content is dependent on the given VPS package that you have picked, but even with the lower-end packages, you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal solely for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient enough to enhance the overall performance of numerous sites. It will take some time for you to detect the effects, since the Varnish platform caches the content that visitors request, but shortly thereafter you’ll notice the significantly less load and the accelerated Internet site load speed. The Varnish platform will permit you to use a less powerful Virtual Private Server package for websites that would typically need a more costly hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you will get the Varnish content caching platform at no additional charge and you will have total control over it via a very easy-to-navigate GUI – you’ll be able to start, to disable or to reboot an instance, to see an elaborate system log, to clear the cached files for any website and much, much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you manage traffic-consuming Internet sites with plenty of visitors, you will notice the significantly better page loading speeds and the less load on your dedicated machine. This will happen soon after you start using the Varnish platform, since it will need some time to cache the web pages that users request. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capacity if the Internet sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but since your server comes with a couple of IP addresses by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the server itself.