Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches data for quicker access. It’s occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and a web browser. When a site visitor loads a given page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this request and sends back the required information. If Varnish is enabled for a specific site, it will cache the pages at the first visit and if the visitor opens a cached page again, the information will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the web server. The accelerated load speed is an end result of the considerably faster response time that the Varnish platform offers compared with any web server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the site visitors will keep being served the exact same content over and over again, as any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish caches in its memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

You can unlock Varnish’s potential and accelerate your websites’ speed regardless of the cloud hosting package that you’ve picked and you can add and configure the content caching platform with a couple of clicks from the easy-to-use GUI offered by our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be able to select two separate things – how many Internet sites will employ the Varnish caching platform, 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 bound to the number of instances, so you can add more instances with less memory and the other way around. In case you have a lot of content on a particular Internet site and you attract numerous site visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will provide you with easy one-click controls for cancelling or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache for each site and for viewing detailed system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish data caching platform is included in the standard service set that you will receive when you decide to host your websites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your sites via our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of system memory that Varnish can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the websites that can use this platform at the same time. Since these two features are not tied to each other, you can use a couple of sites with the default memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for a single web site. Varnish works best if you use a dedicated IP for the websites that utilize its power. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you an easy means of rebooting any instance. What’s more, you’ll be able to clear the cached files with only one single mouse click.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use Varnish with any of our virtual private server plans at no extra cost, since the content caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only condition is that the virtual server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your Internet sites with just a few mouse clicks. Each Virtual Private Server plan includes a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll have no less than several hundred MB, which is quite sufficient even for several large-size websites. Soon after you activate the Varnish platform, it will begin caching the content that your site visitors request, so you will notice the tremendously better website loading speeds and the less load on the machine in no time. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to use a less costly VPS server, as you won’t require that much power to sustain the uninterrupted operation of your Internet sites even if you have larger Internet sites with lots of visitors. Optimum results are achieved if the sites which use the Varnish platform use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can employ Varnish in order to accelerate the speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on it. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no extra fee, but you will also have complete control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-use interface. It will take only one mouse click to start or shut down an instance or to delete the cached data associated with any Internet site that is using Varnish and in case you are more tech-savvy, you can also view the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 gigabytes of system memory for data caching purposes, so even in case you run multiple websites on your dedicated machine and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the difference in their performance will be visible. You will simply have to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever webpages the website visitors open on their end. The platform works best when the websites use a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers include 3 free IPs, you will have all that you need.