Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator that can boost the speed of a site by up to 1000%, depending on its content. Each 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 when the visitor accesses it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will open substantially faster, since Varnish can serve content many times faster than any server software. The end result will be a significantly faster loading site, which leads to an immensely improved website browsing experience. When any of the cached pages is updated on the live site, the info that Varnish stores in its memory is ‘refreshed’ too, so the visitors will never end up seeing old data.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can unlock Varnish’s potential and boost the load speed of your sites irrespective of the shared hosting plan that you have selected and you can activate and configure the content caching platform with a few clicks of the mouse using the user-friendly interface offered by our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the procedure, you’ll be able to choose two different things – how many sites will employ the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 MB and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can add more instances and less memory and the other way around. In case you have a lot of content on a certain site and you win numerous site visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider using a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you simple 1-click controls for disabling or restarting any instance, for erasing the cache associated with any website and for seeing comprehensive system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated hosting plans include Varnish by default, so you can use the accelerator and accelerate the load speed of any site that you host on our platform. You will get 64 MB of system memory exclusively for Varnish at no extra cost and you can activate an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server packages. In case you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be available to you momentarily. You can also add more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide if plenty of data will be cached for one site or if the available memory will be used by several sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to restart or to disable any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to delete the cached data using 1-click buttons. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the Internet sites which will employ it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We provide Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped VPS hosting plans, so in case you obtain a server with this hosting Control Panel, you will be able to take full advantage of the caching platform at no additional fee. Varnish can utilize different amounts of memory for data caching purposes depending on the specific Virtual Private Server plan that you have selected on the order page, but nevertheless, this amount will not be less than several hundred megabytes. This is quite enough to enhance the work of a number of traffic-intensive sites, so the faster web page browsing speeds and the reduced load on the VPS will be perceptible. The effect may not be observable immediately, as the Varnish platform will require some time to cache the content that visitors request, but shortly after you set it up, you’ll feel its full potential. This platform will allow you to use a less powerful Virtual Private Server and to give less cash to get the same performance you would get with a more powerful machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish to enhance the loading speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready to be used at no additional charge, but you will also exert full control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-use interface. It’ll take only one click to start or cancel an instance or to delete the cached data for any website that’s using Varnish and if you’re more advanced, you can also view the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of system memory for site content caching purposes, so even in case you host an enormous number of Internet sites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be apparent. You’ll just have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever content the website visitors access on their end. The platform performs best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers include 3 free-of-charge IPs, you’ll have all that you need.