Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for the sake of faster access. It’s occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and its users. When a website visitor loads a given webpage, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the server processes this request and returns the required information. If Varnish is enabled for a specific website, it will cache the pages on the very first request and in case the visitor accesses a cached page for a second time, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The improved loading speed is an end result of the much faster response time that Varnish offers compared with any web server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the site visitors will continue seeing the exact same content over and over again, as any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish saves in its memory.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

If you host your sites under a shared hosting account with our company, you will be able to add Varnish with several mouse clicks through your hosting Control Panel. The platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared plans and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they’re not tied directly to each other, so you can choose whether you need lots of memory for one large-size site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can use the full potential of Varnish in case the websites use a dedicated IP. With the hosting Control Panel, you can easily start/restart/remove an instance, delete the cached data independently for each website that employs the Varnish platform or view an elaborate log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is a feature, which comes as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting offered by our company and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any site that you host in the semi-dedicated server account. In case you need more, you can increase the system memory allocation. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The same section will enable you to create more instances too, in case you’d like to use the Varnish platform with more websites. The two upgrades can be added independently – you can cache the content of one single large-scale site or run several Internet sites with the default memory allocation. You can get the most out of Varnish in case you have a dedicated IP address and you can order one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. Hepsia will grant you total control over the platform and, with no more than one click, you will be able to clear the cached data, to check a system log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS

You can take advantage of Varnish with any of our virtual private server packages at no additional fee, since the platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The sole condition is that the Virtual Private Server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your Internet sites with just a few clicks of the mouse. Each VPS package offers a different amount of memory for caching purposes, but you will get at least several hundred MB, which is sufficient enough even for several traffic-consuming websites. Soon after you enable the Varnish platform, it’ll begin caching the content that your visitors browse, so you will notice the tremendously faster web page load times and the decreased load on the VPS server in no time. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to use a less pricey server, since you won’t require that many resources to ensure the uninterrupted operation of your websites even if you manage traffic-consuming Internet sites with multiple visitors. Optimum results are achieved if the websites that use the Varnish platform use also a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

You can use Varnish to improve the speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready to be used at no additional charge, but you will also have complete control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-use graphical interface. It’ll take just one single click of the mouse to start or deactivate an instance or to clear the cached content for any website that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you’re more competent, you can also view the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for website content caching purposes, so even if you host a vast number of websites on your machine and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be evident. You will just have to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever webpages the website visitors access on their end. The platform performs best when the sites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers include three charge-free IP addresses, you’ll have all that you need.