Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web application accelerator tool that can increase the loading speed of a website by up to 1000%, depending on its content. 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 in case the visitor accesses it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will open much faster, as the Varnish platform can serve information many times faster than any server software. The end result will be a substantially faster loading website, which means an improved browsing experience. When any of the cached web pages is updated on the live site, the content that Varnish saves in its system memory is updated too, so the website visitors will not see old content.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

If you host your sites under a shared hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks through your Control Panel. The data caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our web hosting packages and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can decide whether you need a lot of memory for a single large-size site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of Varnish in case the websites use a dedicated IP. Using the Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/terminate an instance, delete the cached files individually for each website which employs the Varnish platform or see an in-depth system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering will allow you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand-new semi-dedicated account is active, since the platform is offered by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can use this workload distribution software once your website has been built. If you are in need of more memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine right away. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll have more freedom. The Varnish platform will enormously reduce the server load caused by your sites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You will be able to manage Varnish without efforts from your Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/disable any of the instances that you have, to clear the cached data associated with any of your Internet sites or to check system log files.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

The Varnish data caching platform comes by default with all Linux VPS hosting packages that we offer on the condition that the Virtual Private Server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can boost the performance of your sites with only a few clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the plan, the more memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a less powerful package, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you own several different Internet sites, you’ll notice a significant reduction in the overall server load and a substantially faster webpage loading speed. The platform will need to work for a while as the users navigate the website and once the content has been cached, you will distinguish the results. One of the pluses of using Varnish is that a lower-end and less pricey package will accomplish the very same job as a more high-priced one without the caching platform, so not only will your websites perform much better, but you’ll also spare some money.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

All Linux dedicated web hosting that are ordered with the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the machine. The Varnish platform can be activated and managed with no effort from the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-navigate graphical interface and, with no more than one click, you can view a detailed log, add or reboot an instance, clear the cached files for any website and much, much more. Shortly after you activate the Varnish platform for a given domain or subdomain, it will start caching the web pages loaded by the site visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you’ll witness a considerably faster website performance and a decreased load on the machine. With Varnish-dedicated memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for load balancing purposes even if you host a vast number of sites on your server.