Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches information for faster response times. It is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and a web browser. When a site visitor opens a given web page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and returns the needed content. If Varnish is activated for a specific site, it will cache the pages on the first visit and if the visitor opens a cached page again, the information will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the web server. The accelerated loading speed is a result of the substantially faster response time that Varnish offers as compared with any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the website visitors will continue being served the very same content again and again, as any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform caches in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can unlock Varnish’s full potential and increase your sites’ speed irrespective of the shared hosting package that you have chosen and you can enable and configure the data caching platform with several mouse clicks through the user-friendly interface offered by our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many sites will employ the Varnish caching platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can use more instances with less memory and the other way around. If you’ve got a lot of content on a particular Internet site and you attract lots of website visitors, more memory will guarantee you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will provide you with easy 1-click buttons for deleting or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache for each Internet site and for seeing detailed system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting services that we are offering will permit you to use Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated account has been created, as the data caching platform is available by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is activated, so you can take advantage of this load distribution software as soon as your site has been built. In case you are in need of more memory, you can order 32 MB at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated server instantly. You can also increase the number of the sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not bound directly to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll enjoy more versatility. The platform will noticeably reduce the load generated by your sites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish with no effort from the Control Panel using quick-access controls. You will be able to start/terminate any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached data associated with any of your sites or to see system log files.

Varnish in VPS

You can use the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with any of our Linux VPS if you select Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is available by default and the amount of system memory that it will be able to utilize to cache the content of your sites depends on the given package that you’ve chosen, but even with the lower-end packages, you will have no less than several hundred MB of memory at your disposal exclusively for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient enough to improve the overall performance of multiple Internet sites. It’ll take a little time for you to distinguish the results, since the Varnish platform caches the content that site visitors browse, but after that you will notice the substantially reduced load on your VPS and the accelerated Internet site load speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to use a lower-end package for sites that would usually require a more expensive web hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

All dedicated hosting that are ordered with the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the server. The Varnish platform can be activated and administered effortlessly via Hepsia’s intuitive graphical interface and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you can browse an elaborate system log, add or reboot an instance, delete the cache for any website and much, much more. Shortly after you enable the Varnish platform for a specific domain or subdomain, it will start caching the pages loaded by the website visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you’ll witness a substantially faster site performance in addition to a lowered load on your dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 GB, you will be able to use the platform for load distribution purposes even if you run a lot of websites on the machine.