Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches info for the sake of faster response times. It is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and a web browser. When a site visitor opens a given webpage, its content is requested by the browser, and then the server handles this request and sends back the requested content. If Varnish is activated for a certain website, it will cache its pages at the very first request and if the visitor visits a cached page once more, the data will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the server. The increased loading speed is a result of the significantly faster response speed that Varnish offers compared with any web server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the users will continue being served the same content over and over again, as any modification on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared web hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse via your hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our shared packages and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they’re not tied directly to each other, so you can choose if you need lots of memory for one single large-scale website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unlock the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP. With the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/reboot/deactivate an instance, delete the cached files individually for each site that employs the Varnish platform or see a comprehensive log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish caching platform is included in the standard set of services that you’ll acquire if you decide to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can enable it for any of your websites through our innovative Hepsia Control Panel. The default amount of system memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the Internet sites that can use this caching platform at the same time. Since these two things are not bound to each other, you can use several websites with the default memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single Internet site. The Varnish caching platform works best if you set a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with a simple means of rebooting any instance. In addition, you’ll be able to delete the cached contents with only one single click.

Varnish in VPS Web Hosting

You can take full advantage of the load balancing potential of Varnish with all our Linux VPS web hosting when you select Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes by default and the amount of system memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache the content of your sites depends upon the specific VPS package that you have 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 to enhance the work of numerous websites. It’ll take a little time for you to see the effects, since the Varnish platform caches the content that visitors open, but soon after that you will notice the substantially decreased load on the virtual server and the increased website loading speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to use a less powerful plan for websites that would usually require a more pricey hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting

When you want a more powerful website hosting solution and you acquire one of the dedicated hosting services that we offer, you will be able to use the Varnish platform to optimize the performance of your sites at no additional charge on the condition that the dedicated machine is ordered with our advanced Hepsia Control Panel. Its easy-to-use graphical interface will allow you to monitor platform processes, to clear the cached data or to reboot any instance with one single click. The minimum amount of memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache site content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for an enormous collection of heavy sites, so your server will be able to handle a colossal system load while your Internet site visitors are enjoying a seamless browsing experience. Since your server will come with several different dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to make use of Varnish’s maximum capacity.