Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of quicker response times. It is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and a web browser. When a website visitor opens a given page, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the web server handles this request and sends back the needed content. If Varnish is activated for a site, it will cache its pages at the first visit and if the visitor opens a cached page once more, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The accelerated load speed is an end result of the substantially faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any server software. Of course, this does not mean that the users will keep seeing the same content over and over again, as any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform caches in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can unlock Varnish’s potential and improve your websites’ load speed irrespective of the shared hosting package that you’ve picked and you can add and set up the content caching platform with a few mouse clicks using the easy-to-work-with graphical interface offered by our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the procedure, you’ll be able to select two separate things – how many websites will employ Varnish, i.e. the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can add more instances with less memory and the other way around. If you’ve got a lot of content on a specific Internet site and you gain many visitors, more memory will guarantee you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will offer you simple one-click buttons for turning off or restarting any instance, for erasing the cache associated with any Internet site and for checking exhaustive system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated plans include Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the website accelerator tool and accelerate the speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 MB of memory exclusively for Varnish at no additional cost and you will be able to create an instance with no more than a couple of clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated packages. If you want more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be available to you momentarily. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose whether plenty of content will be cached for one website or if the memory will be used by multiple Internet sites. Hepsia will allow you to restart or to disable any instance, to see the system log file associated with it or to clear the cached data using single-click buttons. To get the most out of Varnish, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the websites that will use it.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish to increase the load speed of any website that is hosted on a dedicated server with our company when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready for use at no additional fee, but you’ll also have total control over it via Hepsia’s user-friendly interface. It’ll take only one mouse click to start or delete an instance or to delete the cached content for any website that’s using Varnish and if you’re more advanced, you can also view the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of memory for content caching purposes, so even if you host an enormous number of sites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the difference in their performance will be distinguishable. You will just need to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever web pages the visitors open on their end. The platform works best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our servers come with 3 charge-free IP addresses, you will have all that you need.