Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a website accelerator that can accelerate the speed of a site by up to one thousand percent, depending on the content itself. Each time a visitor opens any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server if the visitor loads it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will load considerably faster, since the Varnish caching platform can deliver information many times faster than any server software. The result is a much faster loading site, which means a greatly improved website 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site, the content that Varnish keeps in its memory is updated as well, so the website visitors will never end up seeing outdated data.

Varnish in Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites under a web hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a couple of mouse clicks from your Control Panel. The caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared hosting plans and you can select the number of the websites that will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be available for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they’re not directly linked to each other, so you can decide whether you need plenty of memory for one large-scale website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unlock the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP. With the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/disable an instance, delete the cached data individually for each website that employs the Varnish platform or view a detailed log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Linux semi-dedicated servers that we offer will permit you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand-new semi-dedicated server account is active, since the content caching platform is available by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the moment your account is activated, so you can take advantage of this workload distribution software as soon as your site has been launched. In case you’re in need of more system memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine straight away. You can also increase the number of the sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you’ll enjoy more flexibility. The Varnish platform will greatly decrease the load caused by your sites, so your visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish platform with ease via your Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access controls. You’ll be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached data for any of your websites or to view system log files.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll acquire the Varnish platform at no extra cost and you’ll have total control over it via a truly simple-to-use graphical interface – you will be able to start, to delete or to restart an instance, to view a detailed system log, to clear the cached content associated with any site and much more. Varnish will have several gigabytes of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you host resource-swallowing Internet sites with an enormous number of visitors, you will notice the much faster web page loading times and the reduced load on the dedicated machine. This will happen shortly after you start using Varnish, since it will require some time to cache the site content that visitors request. You can get the most out of the platform’s potential if the Internet sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that your dedicated server comes with a couple of IP addresses by default, you won’t have to pay anything on top of the monthly fee for the server itself.