Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator tool that can increase the load speed of a website by up to 1000 percent, based on the content itself. Anytime a visitor opens any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor opens it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will load much faster, since Varnish can deliver information many times faster than any web server software. The end result will be a substantially faster loading page, which leads to an enormously improved browsing experience. In case any of the cached webpages is updated on the live site, the content that Varnish keeps in its memory is updated as well, so the site visitors will never end up seeing old info.

Varnish in Hosting

In case you host your websites in a hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse via your Control Panel. The data caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our packages and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be available for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can choose whether you need plenty of memory for one single large website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of Varnish in case the websites use a dedicated IP. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/deactivate an instance, clear the cached files individually for each website which employs the Varnish platform or view an exhaustive system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish content caching platform is included in the basic set of services that you will get if you choose to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can enable it for any of your sites through our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the Internet sites that can use this platform at the same time. Since these two things are not tied to each other, you can use a couple of Internet sites with the default amount of memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for a single site. Varnish works best when you set a dedicated IP for the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with an easy means of rebooting any instance. On top of that, you will be able to clear the cached data with only one click.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take advantage of Varnish with all our VPS server packages at no extra cost, as the platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The one and only requirement is that the virtual server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your Internet sites with only a few clicks. Each VPS package offers a different amount of system memory for content caching purposes, but you’ll get no less than several hundred megabytes, which is sufficient even for multiple resource-intensive sites. Shortly after you enable Varnish, it’ll begin caching the content that your visitors request, so you’ll notice the much faster Internet site loading times and the lowered load on the machine in no time. The platform will allow you to use a less costly server, as you won’t require that many resources to warrant the proper operation of your sites even if you’ve got large-size sites with multiple visitors. Optimal results are achieved if the Internet sites that use the Varnish caching platform also use a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish in order to enhance the loading speed of any website that is hosted on a dedicated server from us when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready for use at no additional cost, but you’ll also have full control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface. It’ll take just one single mouse click to start or cancel an instance or to delete the cached content associated with any Internet site that’s using Varnish and if you are more trained, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 GB of virtual memory for content caching purposes, so even in case you host a huge number of sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their performance will be visible. You will just need to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever content the website visitors load on their end. The Varnish platform works best if the websites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers include 3 cost-free IP addresses, you’ll have all that you need.