Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web app accelerator tool that can boost the loading 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 when the visitor opens it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load tremendously faster, since the Varnish caching platform can deliver data many times faster than any server software. The result will be a significantly faster loading site, which leads to a much-improved browsing experience. When any of the cached web pages is updated on the live site, the content that Varnish stores in its system memory is updated as well, so the site visitors will not see old data.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your sites under a shared website hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our web hosting plans and you can choose how many sites will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be available for the cached content. The two features that can be upgraded in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they aren’t directly tied to each other, so you can decide if you want lots of memory for one single large-sized website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP address. With the Control Panel, you can quickly start/reboot/deactivate an instance, delete the cached files independently for each site that employs the Varnish platform or view an in-depth log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated hosting plans that we’re offering will permit you to employ Varnish once your new semi-dedicated server account has been set up, since the platform comes by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can make use of this load distribution software as soon as your site has been published online. In case you’re in need of more memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server immediately. You can also increase the number of the sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly linked to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you will enjoy more freedom. The caching platform will significantly decrease the load on the machine that your websites generate, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish without efforts from the Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access controls. You will be able to start/remove any of the instances that you’ve got, to clear the cached content for any of your Internet sites or to see system log files.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take full advantage of the workload balancing capabilities of Varnish with all our VPS hosting plans when you choose Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The Varnish platform comes by default and the amount of system memory that it’ll be able to use to cache the content of your sites depends on the particular VPS package that you’ve chosen, but even with the lower-end packages, you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal exclusively for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient enough to optimize the performance of numerous Internet sites. It’ll take some time for you to see the results, as Varnish caches the content that website visitors request, but shortly after that you’ll notice the significantly decreased load on your VPS server and the enhanced Internet site loading speed. The Varnish platform will permit you to make use of a less powerful Virtual Private Server plan for sites that would typically require a more costly web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated web hosting plans which are ordered with the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated machine. The Varnish platform can be configured and administered effortlessly through Hepsia’s simple-to-navigate GUI and, with no more than one mouse click, you can see an exhaustive log, create or restart an instance, delete the cached data for any site and much, much more. Soon after you configure the Varnish platform for a given domain or subdomain, it will start caching the web pages requested by the visitors and as soon as it has cached enough content, you will observe a significantly better website performance plus a lowered load on the machine. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload balancing purposes even if you host numerous sites on the server.