Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a website accelerator tool that can increase the load speed of a site by up to 1000%, based on the content itself. Every 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 browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will load considerably faster, as Varnish can deliver content many times faster than any server software. The end result will be a considerably faster loading site, which means an immensely improved visitor experience. In case any of the cached web pages is updated on the live Internet site, the content that Varnish saves in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the users will never see outdated information.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

If you host your websites under a cloud hosting account with us, you will be able to add Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse from your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform comes as an upgrade with all our web hosting packages and you can select how many websites will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two features that can be upgraded in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they aren’t tied directly to each other, so you can choose whether you want lots of memory for one large-sized site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unlock the full potential of the Varnish caching platform if the websites use a dedicated IP. With the Control Panel, you can quickly start/restart/delete an instance, delete the cached content independently for each website which uses the Varnish platform or see an exhaustive system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is a feature, which is offered by default with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans offered by our company and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any Internet site that you host in your semi-dedicated account. In case you need more than that, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same section will enable you to enable more instances too, in case you would like to use the Varnish platform with more websites. The two upgrades can be added separately – you can cache the content of a single resource-requiring site or use several websites with the default memory quota. You can get the most out of the Varnish platform in case you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated server package as well. Hepsia will give you full control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you’ll be able to delete the cached files, to view a system 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 fee, as the data caching platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The only prerequisite is that the virtual machine must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your Internet sites with just a couple of clicks. Each VPS plan features a different amount of system memory for caching purposes, but you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes, which is sufficient even for multiple resource-requiring Internet sites. Soon after you activate Varnish, it will start caching the content that your site visitors request, so you’ll notice the tremendously better web page load times and the lowered load on your Virtual Private Server in no time. Varnish will allow you to use a less high-priced virtual server, as you will not require that many resources to warrant the correct operation of your Internet sites even if you manage traffic-hungry sites with multiple visitors. Maximum results are achieved if the sites that use the Varnish caching platform use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

When you need the most powerful website hosting solution and you acquire any of the Linux dedicated web hosting plans that we’re offering, you’ll be able to use the Varnish platform to enhance the work of your Internet sites at no extra cost on the condition that the server is ordered with our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its intuitive interface will permit you to monitor system processes, to delete the cache or to restart any instance with one single click. The minimum amount of system memory that the caching platform can employ to cache content is three gigabytes, which is more than enough for a large number of resource-requiring sites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with a colossal load while your visitors are having a seamless web browsing experience. As your server will come with several dedicated IPs, you will be able to make use of Varnish’s maximum capacity.