Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches info for the sake of faster access. It is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and a web browser. When a website visitor loads a particular page, its content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the server processes this browser request and sends back the requested content. If Varnish is enabled for a particular website, it will cache its pages at the very first request and if the visitor visits a cached page for a second time, the information will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The increased load speed is an end result of the significantly faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the site visitors will keep seeing the very same content again and again, since any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform caches in its system memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

You can unlock Varnish’s potential and accelerate your websites regardless of the cloud hosting package that you’ve selected and you can activate and set up the platform with a couple of clicks via the intuitive interface offered by our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be able to select two separate things – how many sites will employ Varnish, in other words – the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and vice versa. In case you have plenty of content on a specific Internet site and you attract a lot of website visitors, more system memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will offer you easy 1-click controls for deactivating or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache for each website and for viewing exhaustive system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is a feature, which is included by default with all semi-dedicated servers that we offer and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any Internet site that you host in your account. If you need more than that, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same Upgrades section will allow you to add more instances as well, if you would like to use Varnish with more websites. The two things can be ordered separately – you can cache the content of one resource-hungry site or run several sites with the default memory. You can get the most out of Varnish in case you use a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated package as well. Hepsia will give you full control over the platform and, with no more than one click, you’ll be able to clear the cached content, to view a system log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with any of our Linux VPS servers if you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes by default and the system memory that it will be able to utilize to cache the content of your websites is dependent on the given Virtual Private Server package that you have picked, but even with the less powerful packages, you’ll have at least several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal solely for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient enough to enhance the overall performance of numerous Internet sites. It’ll take some time for you to notice the effects, since the Varnish platform caches the content that site visitors request, but soon after that you will notice the significantly reduced load on the machine and the improved Internet site loading speed. Varnish will permit you to use a less powerful plan for Internet sites which would typically require a more pricey hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll acquire the Varnish content caching platform at no extra charge and you will have complete control over it via an exceptionally simple-to-work-with GUI – you will be able to start, to deactivate or to reboot an instance, to view a detailed log, to delete the cached content associated with any site and much, much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of system memory at its disposal, so even if you have large-sized Internet sites with a huge number of visitors, you will notice the considerably faster website load speeds and the less load on the dedicated server. This will become a fact shortly after you start using Varnish, as it will require a certain amount of time to cache the site content that users request. You can make the most of the platform’s capacity if the websites that are using it use also a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that your dedicated server comes with several IPs by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.