Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator that can accelerate the load speed of a site by up to one thousand percent, based on the content itself. Every time a visitor accesses any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor opens it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will open much faster, since the Varnish platform can deliver information many times faster than any server software. The result will be a considerably faster loading website, which means a greatly improved browsing experience. If any of the cached pages is updated on the actual site, the info that Varnish stores in its memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the visitors will not see outdated content.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared website hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse from your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our shared plans and you can choose how many sites will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be used 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 linked directly to each other, so you can choose whether you need lots of memory for one single large-sized website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can use the full potential of the Varnish caching platform if the sites use a dedicated IP. With the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/terminate an instance, delete the cached contents independently for each website that employs Varnish or view a detailed log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated hosting plans include Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the web application accelerator and accelerate the speed of any website that you host on our platform. You’ll get 64 megabytes of system memory dedicated to Varnish at no extra cost and you’ll be able to activate an instance with no more than a couple of mouse clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated plans. In case you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you momentarily. You can also order more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide whether a lot of data will be cached for one site or whether the memory will be utilized by multiple websites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to reboot or to deactivate any instance, to see the system log file associated with it or to clear the cached files using one-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can allocate a dedicated IP address to the sites which will use it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with all our VPS hosting plans when you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel. The content caching platform is offered by default and the memory that it’ll be able to use to cache your site content is dependent upon the given VPS plan that you’ve selected, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have at least several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal exclusively for caching purposes. This amount is enough to boost the performance of multiple sites. It will take some time for you to see the effects, since the Varnish platform caches the content that website visitors open, but after that you will notice the substantially reduced load on your virtual machine and the accelerated Internet site load speed. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to make use of a lower-end VPS package for websites which would typically need a more high-priced web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll get Varnish at no extra charge and you will exert full control over it via an extremely simple-to-use interface – you’ll be able to start, to deactivate or to restart an instance, to browse an in-depth system log, to delete the cached data associated with any Internet site and much more. The Varnish platform will have several GB of memory at its disposal, so even if you have traffic-hungry sites with a huge number of visitors, you will notice the tremendously better web page load times and the reduced load on your dedicated server. This will happen soon after you start using Varnish, as it will need a certain amount of time to cache the web pages that people open. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capacity if the websites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that your dedicated server includes a few IPs by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of the monthly charge for the machine itself.