Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches info for faster access. It’s occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and its users. When a site visitor loads a given web page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and returns the needed info. If Varnish is enabled for a particular website, it will cache its pages at the first request and in case the visitor visits a cached page again, the information will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the web server. The boosted load speed is a result of the considerably faster response speed that Varnish offers compared with any web server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the website visitors will keep being served the same content again and again, since any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform caches in its system memory.

Varnish in Web Hosting

Our company offers Varnish as an optional upgrade with each Linux web hosting service and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your account via the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that you’d like to employ Varnish for and the second one, which is offered in increments of 32 MB, shows the maximum amount of content that the content caching platform can store at any given time. Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with interface will permit you to stop or to reboot any instance, to check detailed logs or to clear the platform’s cache with just a click. For maximum results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will open considerably faster, which means more happy website visitors and prospective customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated service include Varnish by default, so you can take advantage of the web application accelerator and improve the loading speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 MB of memory particularly for the Varnish accelerator at no extra cost and you will be able to create an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated plans. In case you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you straight away. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide if plenty of content will be cached for one website or whether the available memory will be used by several Internet sites. Hepsia will allow you to restart or to disable any instance, to view the system log file associated with it or to delete the cached data using one-click controls. To get the most out of Varnish, you can set a dedicated IP address for the websites that will employ it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use Varnish with all our VPS server plans at no additional fee, since the data caching platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The sole precondition is that the server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your sites with only a few mouse clicks. Each VPS package includes a different amount of memory for caching purposes, but you will have no less than several hundred MB, which is quite sufficient even for several resource-requiring Internet sites. Shortly after you activate the Varnish platform, it will start caching the content that your website visitors open, so you will notice the considerably faster Internet site loading speeds and the lowered load on the VPS very soon. Varnish will permit you to use a less high-priced VPS, as you will not need that much power to sustain the uninterrupted operation of your Internet sites even if you’ve got popular sites with plenty of visitors. Optimum results are accomplished if the sites that use the Varnish caching platform use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All Linux dedicated service which are ordered with the custom Hepsia web hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the server. The Varnish data caching platform can be configured and managed with ease from the Hepsia Control Panel’s user-friendly interface and, with no more than one single click, you can see a comprehensive system log, add or reboot an instance, clear the cached content associated with any website and much more. Soon after you set up the Varnish platform for a particular domain or sub-domain, it will start caching the web pages browsed by the site visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you’ll witness a significantly better website performance plus a reduced server load. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at three gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the platform for load distribution purposes even if you host a large number of websites on your dedicated machine.