Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web app accelerator tool that can accelerate 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 if the visitor accesses it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will open considerably faster, as the Varnish caching platform can deliver content many times faster than any web server software. The end result will be a much faster loading website, which leads to an immensely improved visitor experience. In case any of the cached webpages is updated on the live Internet site, the information that Varnish keeps in its memory is updated as well, so the site visitors won’t end up seeing old information.
Varnish in Cloud Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our Linux cloud packages. You can add it to your website hosting account from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with all shared packages and you’ll get an amazingly user-friendly GUI, which will give you complete control over the content caching platform. Using one-click fast-access controls, you can reboot or remove any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be activated for a specific Internet site. You can also check an elaborate log file or clear the cache associated with any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting package, you will be able to select the total amount of system memory that will be available to you for caching purposes and the number of the websites that will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for best performance, you can get a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. This will enable you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have many pleased website users.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Varnish platform is part of the standard service set that you’ll obtain when you choose to host your Internet sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your sites through our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but if you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the sites that can use this platform at the same time. Since these two features aren’t tied to each other, you can use a couple of instances 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 platform works best when you set a dedicated IP for the websites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you a simple way of restarting any instance. What’s more, you will be able to delete the cached data with just one click of the mouse.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
You can use Varnish with each of our virtual private server plans at no extra charge, since the platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The only prerequisite is that the virtual machine must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your sites with only a couple of mouse clicks. Each VPS package comes with a different amount of system memory for caching purposes, but you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for several large sites. Soon after you enable the Varnish platform, it’ll begin caching the content that your website visitors access, so you’ll notice the considerably better site load speeds and the lowered load in no time. The Varnish platform will allow you to use a less expensive virtual server, since you won’t require that much power to ensure the uninterrupted operation of your websites even if you have traffic-hungry websites with multiple visitors. Maximum results are accomplished if the Internet sites which use Varnish use also a dedicated IP address.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
All Linux dedicated servers hosting packages which are ordered with the tailor-made Hepsia website hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the dedicated server. The Varnish caching platform can be enabled and managed without efforts through the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-use graphical interface and, with no more than one single click, you can see an in-depth system log, create or restart an instance, delete the cached content for any website and much, much more. Shortly after you set up the Varnish platform for a given domain or subdomain, it will start caching the pages browsed by your website visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you’ll witness a substantially faster site performance as well as a decreased load on the server. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at three gigabytes, you will be able to use the software platform for load distribution purposes even if you host a lot of sites on your machine.