Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web app accelerator that can boost the speed of a site by up to 1000 percent, based on its content. Each time a visitor opens any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor loads it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load considerably faster, since the Varnish caching platform can deliver data many times faster than any web server software. The result is a significantly faster loading website, which means an improved visitor experience. When any of the cached web pages is updated on the live site, the data that Varnish saves in its system memory is updated too, so the users will never end up seeing out-of-date info.

Varnish in Website Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each and every Linux website hosting and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your shared web hosting account using the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two different things that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one pertains to the number of the sites that you wish to use Varnish for and the second one, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, indicates the maximum amount of content that the content caching platform can cache at any given time. Hepsia’s time and effort saving graphical interface will allow you to shut down or to reboot any instance, to view in-depth logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For optimal results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will open considerably faster, meaning more happy website visitors and prospective clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish content caching platform is part of the default set of services that you will acquire when you decide to host your Internet sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your sites via our advanced Hepsia Control Panel. The default system memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. 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. As these two features are not linked to each other, you can use a few Internet sites with the default memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for one single website. Varnish works best if you allocate a dedicated IP address to the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will give you an easy means of rebooting any instance. In addition, you will be able to delete the cached contents with just one click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS

The Varnish data caching platform is included by default with all Linux VPS that we’re offering as long as the VPS server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can boost the overall performance of your websites with only a few clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a lower-end package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you have several different Internet sites, you’ll notice a noticeable reduction in the server load and a tremendously faster website load speed. The Varnish caching platform will have to work for a little while as the visitors navigate the pages and once the content has been cached, you will observe the result. One of the benefits of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less pricey Virtual Private Server plan will accomplish the very same job as a more costly one without the caching platform, so not only will your websites perform better, but you’ll also save some money.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

You can employ Varnish to optimize the loading speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready to be used at no additional fee, but you will also exert total control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with GUI. It will take only a click to start or shut down an instance or to delete the cache associated with any website that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you are more knowledgeable, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of virtual memory for caching purposes, so even if you run a vast number of sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the improvement in their performance will be noticeable. You will just have to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the website visitors browse on their end. The Varnish platform performs best when the sites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers include three charge-free IPs, you’ll have everything you need.