Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web accelerator tool that can improve the loading speed of a website by up to one thousand percent, based on its content. Whenever a visitor accesses any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor loads it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will load significantly faster, as Varnish can deliver information many times faster than any web server software. The result is a substantially faster loading site, which leads to an improved website browsing experience. When any of the cached webpages is updated on the live Internet site, the data that Varnish saves in its memory is updated as well, so the visitors won’t see out-of-date info.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with several mouse clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared plans and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they aren’t tied directly to each other, so you can decide if you want lots of memory for a single large-size site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can use the full potential of the Varnish platform if the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can easily start/reboot/cancel an instance, clear the cached data individually for each website that employs Varnish or see a detailed log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is part of the basic set of services that you will receive if you decide to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your Internet sites via our next-generation Hepsia Control Panel. The default system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but if you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the sites that can use this caching platform simultaneously. Since these two things are not linked to each other, you can use several instances with the default amount of memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for one single site. Varnish performs best when you allocate a dedicated IP to the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with an easy means of rebooting any instance. Also, you’ll be able to delete the cached content with just one mouse click.

Varnish in VPS

You can use the workload balancing potential of Varnish with any of our VPS services when you select Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes by default and the amount of system memory that it’ll be able to use to cache the content of your sites is dependent upon the specific VPS plan that you have picked, but even with the less powerful packages, you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal solely for caching purposes. This amount is enough to improve the work of multiple sites. It’ll take a little time for you to distinguish the results, as the Varnish platform caches the content that visitors browse, but shortly after that you’ll notice the significantly lowered load on your virtual server and the improved website load speed. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to make use of a less powerful Virtual Private Server plan for Internet sites that would usually require a more high-priced hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

All dedicated hosting services that are ordered with the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the server. The Varnish data caching platform can be set up and managed without effort via Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with interface and, with no more than one single mouse click, you can browse an in-depth log, add or restart an instance, clear the cached data associated with any site and much more. Shortly after you configure the Varnish platform for a given domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the webpages opened by your visitors and once it has cached enough content, you’ll observe a tremendously better website performance as well as a lowered server load. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 GB, you will be able to use the software platform for load balancing purposes even if you run lots of websites on the server.