Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator tool that can increase the loading speed of a site by up to 1000%, depending on the content itself. Anytime a visitor opens any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server if the visitor loads it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will open considerably faster, since the Varnish platform can deliver content many times faster than any web server software. The result will be a significantly faster loading site, which leads to an immensely improved browsing experience. When any of the cached webpages is updated on the live site, the information that Varnish caches in its memory is updated too, so the site visitors will not end up seeing out-of-date information.
Varnish in Shared Web Hosting
If you host your websites under a shared web hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a couple of mouse clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared hosting plans and you can select how many sites will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be available for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they are not directly tied to each other, so you can decide whether you need a lot of memory for a single large-scale site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of Varnish in case the websites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can quickly start/reboot/delete an instance, clear the cached files independently for each website that uses Varnish or see a comprehensive system log file.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
Varnish is included as standard with all semi-dedicated servers offered by us and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can employ it with any site that you host in the semi-dedicated server account. In case you’re in need of more, you can increase the system memory allowance. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same Upgrades section will allow you to activate more instances as well, in case you wish to use the Varnish platform with more Internet sites. The two upgrades can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of one single traffic-heavy website or use several different websites with the default memory quota. You can get the most out of the Varnish caching platform if you use a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated server plan as well. Hepsia will grant you total control over the caching platform and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you will be able to delete the cached content, to view a log or to reboot an instance.
Varnish in VPS Servers
You can take advantage of Varnish with any of our VPS server packages at no extra charge, since the content caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only prerequisite is that the virtual machine must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your Internet sites with just a couple of clicks. Each VPS package features a different amount of system memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll get at least several hundred megabytes, which is enough even for multiple traffic-consuming sites. Soon after you enable Varnish, it will begin caching the content that your website visitors access, so you will notice the significantly faster site load times and the decreased load on the VPS in no time. Varnish will allow you to use a less high-priced virtual server, as you won’t need that much power to warrant the proper operation of your sites even if you run resource-demanding websites with numerous visitors. Maximum results are achieved if the websites which use Varnish use also a dedicated IP address.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
You can use Varnish to optimize the loading speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no extra cost, but you will also exert total control over it via Hepsia’s intuitive interface. It’ll take just one mouse click to start or disable an instance or to delete the cached data associated with any website that’s using the Varnish platform and if you are more sophisticated, you can also browse the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of system memory for web content caching purposes, so even in case you run numerous sites on your server and they all use the platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be perceivable. You’ll simply need to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever webpages the website visitors access on their end. The platform performs best when the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers come with three free IP addresses, you will have all that you need.