Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches information for quicker access. It’s sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and a browser. When a visitor loads a given page, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the server processes this browser request and returns the needed content. If Varnish is enabled for a specific site, it will cache its pages on the very first request and in case the user accesses a cached page again, the data will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the server. The boosted speed is an end result of the significantly faster response time that Varnish offers as compared to any server software. Of course, this does not mean that the users will continue seeing the very same content again and again, because any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform keeps in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can use Varnish’s full potential and accelerate your sites’ load speed regardless of the shared hosting package that you have picked and you can enable and configure the data caching platform with a couple of mouse clicks using the easy-to-work-with interface offered by our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll be able to select two separate things – how many Internet sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, i.e. 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 use more instances with less memory and the other way around. In case you have lots of content on a particular site and you get lots of site visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use the Varnish platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with simple one-click controls for discontinuing or restarting any instance, for erasing the cache for any Internet site and for checking exhaustive system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated servers include Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the website accelerator and optimize the loading speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of memory exclusively for the Varnish accelerator at no extra fee and you’ll be able to create an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server packages. If you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal straight away. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose whether plenty of data will be cached for one website or if the memory will be utilized by multiple sites. Hepsia will enable you to restart or to remove any instance, to view the system log file associated with it or to clear the cached files using one-click buttons. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can set a dedicated IP address for the websites which will employ it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

The Varnish data caching platform comes by default with each of the VPS servers offered by our company on the condition that the virtual server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can boost the overall performance of your websites with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the plan, the more memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a less powerful plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you run several different Internet sites, you will notice a significant decrease in the server load and a much faster website load speed. The platform will have to work for a while as the users navigate the site and as soon as the site content has been cached, you will perceive the result. One of the pros of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less expensive VPS package will accomplish the same job as a more expensive one without the caching platform, so not only will your Internet sites work much better, but you will also save some cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish in order to boost the speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no extra charge, but you’ll also have full control over it via Hepsia’s easy-to-navigate interface. It will take just one mouse click to start or stop an instance or to delete the cached content for any site that’s using Varnish and if you are more advanced, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 GB of memory for web content caching purposes, so even if you host multiple websites on your dedicated server and they all use the platform, the improvement in their performance will be observable. You’ll just have to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever web pages the visitors open on their end. The Varnish platform performs best if the websites use a dedicated IP, but since our dedicated servers include three charge-free IP addresses, you will have all that you need.