Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches information for quicker access. It is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and a web browser. When a site visitor loads a specific page, its content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and sends back the needed data. If Varnish is activated for a given website, it will cache its pages on the very first request and if the user accesses a cached page again, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The increased loading speed is an end result of the considerably faster response speed that Varnish offers compared to any web server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the site visitors will continue seeing the same content again and again, since any modification on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform stores in its memory.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with each of our cloud website hosting. You can add it to your website hosting account through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with all shared hosting plans and you’ll get a rather simple-to-use graphical interface, which will grant you full control over the data caching system. Using 1-click fast-access buttons, you can restart or stop any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be enabled for a given website. You can also check an elaborate log or erase the cache for any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your hosting plan, you will be able to select the total amount of memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for optimum performance, you can get a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have lots of pleased website visitors.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take full advantage of the load balancing potential of Varnish with all our Linux VPS servers if you pick Hepsia as your Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform is offered by default and the memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache the content of your sites is dependent upon the particular Virtual Private Server package that you have picked, but even with the lower-end packages, you will have no less than several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal only for content caching purposes. This amount is enough to enhance the work of multiple websites. It’ll take a little time for you to see the results, since Varnish caches the content that site visitors open, but after that you’ll notice the significantly lowered load on your server and the increased website load speed. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server package for Internet sites which would usually require a more expensive hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll obtain Varnish at no additional fee and you will have full control over it through an incredibly simple-to-navigate interface – you will be able to start, to cancel or to reboot an instance, to check a detailed log, to delete the cached content associated with any website and much more. The Varnish platform will have several GB of system memory at its disposal, so even if you host large-sized websites with a vast number of visitors, you’ll notice the substantially faster site loading speeds and the less load on the dedicated server. This will happen soon after you start using the Varnish platform, since it will require a certain amount of time to cache the website content that users access. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capability in case the Internet sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that your server comes with a few IPs by default, you won’t have to pay anything on top of the monthly charge for the server itself.