Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web application accelerator that can accelerate the load speed of a site by up to one thousand percent, based on the content itself. Every 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. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load considerably faster, as the Varnish caching platform can serve information many times faster than any server software. The end result is a considerably faster loading site, which means an immensely improved browsing experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual Internet site, the content that Varnish caches in its system memory is updated as well, so the users won’t end up seeing out-of-date data.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared hosting. You can add it to your web hosting account through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is available with all shared packages and you’ll get an amazingly user-friendly GUI, which will give you full control over the caching platform. Using one-click fast-access controls, you can restart or disable any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer work for a particular website. You can also see a detailed system log or erase the cache associated with any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting plan, you will be able to select the total amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for data caching purposes and the number of the websites that will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for maximum performance, you can set a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. This will permit you to get the most out of your websites and to have a lot of happy users.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
You can use Varnish with any of our virtual private server plans at no additional charge, as the caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The sole precondition is that the virtual machine must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your sites with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. Each VPS package offers a different amount of system memory for caching purposes, but you’ll get minimum several hundred megabytes, which is sufficient enough even for multiple resource-demanding websites. Shortly after you enable Varnish, it’ll begin caching the content that your website visitors open, so you will notice the tremendously faster page loading speeds and the reduced load on your VPS server in no time. Varnish will permit you to use a less pricey virtual machine, since you won’t need that much power to warrant the proper operation of your sites even if you’ve got resource-demanding Internet sites with many visitors. Optimal results are achieved if the sites that use the Varnish platform use also a dedicated IP.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
You can employ Varnish to boost the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server with us if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready to be used at no additional charge, but you will also exert complete control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-use GUI. It’ll take just one single mouse click to start or cancel an instance or to clear the cached content for any website that is using Varnish and in case you’re more competent, you can also browse the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than three gigabytes of system memory for website content caching purposes, so even if you host lots of Internet sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be obvious. You’ll just need to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever content the visitors load on their end. The Varnish platform works best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP address, but since our servers include 3 free-of-charge IPs, you will have all that you need.