Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web accelerator tool that can improve the speed of a website by up to 1000%, depending on the content itself. Every time a visitor opens 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 opens it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will load tremendously faster, since the Varnish platform can deliver data many times faster than any web server software. The result will be a substantially faster loading page, which means an immensely improved website browsing experience. When any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual site, the data that Varnish keeps in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the visitors won’t end up seeing old information.

Varnish in Website Hosting

If you host your websites under a website hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a few mouse clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our shared web hosting packages and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be available for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they’re not directly linked to each other, so you can decide whether you need plenty of memory for a single large-scale site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of Varnish in case the websites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/deactivate an instance, clear the cached contents individually for each website which uses the Varnish platform or view a comprehensive log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages include Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web app accelerator tool and speed up any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 MB of system memory particularly for Varnish at no extra fee and you can activate an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server plans. In case you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal immediately. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if lots of data will be cached for one website or whether the memory will be utilized by several sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to restart or to remove any instance, to see the system log associated with it or to clear the cached content using 1-click controls. To get the most out of Varnish, you can get a dedicated IP address for the sites that will employ it.

Varnish in VPS

You can take advantage of Varnish with all our virtual private server packages at no additional cost, as the platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The one and only condition is that the VPS server must come with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your sites with only a couple of clicks. Each plan features a different amount of system memory for caching purposes, but you’ll have no less than several hundred MB, which is enough even for several busy sites. Shortly after you activate the Varnish platform, it will start caching the content that your website visitors request, so you will notice the tremendously faster webpage loading speeds and the lowered load on your VPS in no time. Varnish will permit you to use a less pricey VPS, as you will not need that much power to ensure the uninterrupted operation of your Internet sites even if you’ve got large-scale websites with a lot of visitors. Optimal results are accomplished if the sites that use the Varnish caching platform use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you will acquire the Varnish content caching platform at no extra charge and you’ll exert full control over it through a really simple-to-navigate interface – you will be able to start, to discontinue or to reboot an instance, to view an in-depth system log, to delete the cached files associated with any Internet site and much, much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of system memory at its disposal, so even if you’ve got resource-heavy Internet sites with a lot of visitors, you will notice the tremendously better website load times and the less load on your dedicated machine. This will happen shortly after you begin using the Varnish platform, since it will need some time to cache the pages that visitors request. You can make the most of the platform’s capabilities in case the Internet sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that your server comes with a couple of IPs by default, you will not need to pay anything on top of the monthly fee for the server itself.