Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of quicker access. It’s sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and a browser. When a website visitor accesses a specific webpage, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the server handles this request and delivers the requested info. If Varnish is enabled for a site, it will cache the pages at the first request and if the visitor opens a cached page for a second time, the information will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The increased speed is a result of the considerably faster response time that the Varnish platform offers compared with any web server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the website visitors will keep being served the same content over and over again, since any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish saves in its system memory.
Varnish in Shared Website Hosting
Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with all our Linux shared website hosting. You can add it to your account via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared web hosting packages and you’ll get a truly user-friendly graphical interface, which will grant you full control over the data caching system. Using one-click quick-access buttons, you can restart or deactivate any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer work for a given site. You can also check an in-depth log file or erase the cache for any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting plan, you will be able to choose the maximum amount of memory that will be available to you for content caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for top performance, you can get a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your websites and to have numerous pleased site visitors.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting include Varnish by default, so you can use the accelerator and boost the speed of any site that you host on our platform. You will get 64 megabytes of system memory particularly for the Varnish accelerator at no extra cost and you’ll be able to add an instance with no more than a couple of clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server plans. If you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal instantaneously. You can also add more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose whether plenty of data will be cached for a single site or if the memory will be utilized by several Internet sites. Hepsia will permit you to reboot or to discontinue any instance, to see the system log associated with it or to delete the cached files using 1-click buttons. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can get a dedicated IP for the websites that will use it.
Varnish in VPS Web Hosting
We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed Linux VPS web hosting, so in case you buy a server with this web hosting Control Panel, you will be able to take advantage of the caching platform at no extra charge. Varnish can use different amounts of system memory for content caching purposes based on the specific VPS plan that you have picked during the registration process, but at any rate, this amount won’t be less than several hundred MB. This is more than enough to enhance the work of a number of resource-intensive sites, so the faster page loading speeds and the less load on the VPS server will be discernible. The result may not be observable momentarily, as Varnish will require some time to cache the website content that users browse, but soon after you activate it, you’ll witness its full capacity. This caching platform will allow you to use a lower-end server and to give less money to get the very same performance you would get with a higher-end machine without Varnish.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting
You can use Varnish in order to optimize the load speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready for use at no extra charge, but you’ll also exert full control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with GUI. It’ll take just one single click of the mouse to start or remove an instance or to delete the cache for any site that’s using Varnish and in case you’re more proficient, you can also check the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of virtual memory for site content caching purposes, so even in case you run lots of Internet sites on your machine and they all use the caching platform, the difference in their overall performance will be detectable. You’ll just need to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever content the visitors open on their end. The platform works best if the websites use a dedicated IP, but since our dedicated servers include three free-of-cost IP addresses, you will have everything you need.