Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web application accelerator that can boost the speed of a website by up to 1000 percent, depending on its content. Anytime a visitor accesses any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor opens it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will open considerably faster, since the Varnish platform can serve data many times faster than any server software. The result will be a much faster loading site, which leads to an improved browsing experience. When any of the cached pages is updated on the actual Internet site, the content that Varnish caches in its memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the users will never see out-of-date data.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux shared hosting. You can add it to your account from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is available with all shared web hosting plans and you will get a quite simple-to-use GUI, which will give you complete control over the data caching system. Using one-click quick-access buttons, you can restart or turn off any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer work for a certain Internet site. You can also view a detailed log file or erase the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your shared web hosting package, you’ll be able to select the total amount of system memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for optimal performance, you can allocate a dedicated IP address to the sites that will use Varnish. This will enable you to get the most out of your Internet sites and to have numerous pleased site visitors.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Varnish caching platform is an essential part of the standard set of services that you will acquire in case you choose to host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your Internet sites via our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default system memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the websites that can use this platform simultaneously. Since these two features are not linked to each other, you can use a few websites with the default amount of memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single website. Varnish works best if you assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you a simple means of rebooting any instance. Furthermore, you’ll be able to clear the cached contents with only a click.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
You can take full advantage of the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with each of our VPS hosting when you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform is available by default and the amount of memory that it will be able to utilize to cache your website content is dependent on the particular plan that you’ve selected, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have no less than several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal exclusively for data caching purposes. This amount is enough to improve the work of multiple Internet sites. It will take some time for you to detect the effects, as Varnish caches the content that site visitors open, but soon after that you will notice the significantly lowered load on your Virtual Private Server and the improved website load speed. Varnish will allow you to use a less powerful plan for websites that would normally need a more costly hosting solution.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
You can use Varnish in order to accelerate any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready for use at no additional charge, but you will also have total control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-navigate GUI. It’ll take just one single mouse click to start or delete an instance or to clear the cache for any Internet site that is using the Varnish platform and in case you are more experienced, you can also browse the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 GB of system memory for web content caching purposes, so even if you run multiple Internet sites on your dedicated server and they all use the caching platform, the difference in their overall performance will be observable. You’ll just need to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the visitors browse on their end. The platform works best when the websites use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that our dedicated servers come with three free IP addresses, you will have all that you need.