Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator that can improve the speed of a website by up to one thousand percent, depending on its content. Each time a visitor opens any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server if the visitor accesses it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will open tremendously faster, as the Varnish platform can deliver data many times faster than any server software. The end result is a much faster loading website, which leads to an improved browsing experience. In case any of the cached webpages is updated on the actual Internet site, the content that Varnish caches in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the site visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date info.
Varnish in Shared Web Hosting
In case you host your sites under a shared web hosting account with our company, you will be able to add Varnish with a few clicks through your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our shared packages and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space 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’re not directly tied to each other, so you can choose whether you want plenty of memory for one large-scale site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unlock the full potential of Varnish if the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/delete an instance, clear the cached data independently for each site that uses Varnish or see an elaborate system log file.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The semi-dedicated hosting offered by us will allow you to employ Varnish once your brand new semi-dedicated account has been opened, as the content caching platform comes by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this workload distribution software as soon as your site has been built. In case you’re in need of more memory, you can get 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated server instantly. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you will enjoy more versatility. The caching platform will substantially reduce the load on the server generated by your sites, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish platform with no effort from your Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access controls. You will be able to start/terminate any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached files for any of your Internet sites or to see system log files.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
You can use the workload balancing potential of Varnish with each of our Linux VPS hosting if you pick Hepsia as your Control Panel. The caching platform is available by default and the amount of system memory that it’ll be able to use to cache the content of your sites depends on the specific package that you’ve selected, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have at least several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal solely for caching purposes. This amount is enough to optimize the overall performance of multiple Internet sites. It will take some time for you to notice the effects, since Varnish caches the content that website visitors access, but after that you will notice the substantially decreased load on the VPS server and the improved Internet site loading speed. Varnish will allow you to make use of a lower-end Virtual Private Server package for websites that would typically require a more high-priced web hosting solution.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
You can use Varnish in order to improve the loading speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server with us if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the platform ready for use at no extra fee, but you will also have complete control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with GUI. It’ll take just one click to start or discontinue an instance or to clear the cache associated with any site that’s using Varnish and in case you are more tech-savvy, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of virtual memory for data caching purposes, so even if you run an immense number of Internet sites on your machine and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the improvement in their performance will be distinguishable. You will simply have to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever content the website visitors access on their end. The platform performs best when the sites use a dedicated IP, but since our dedicated servers include three free-of-charge IP addresses, you’ll have everything you need.