Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches data for the sake of faster response times. It’s occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and an Internet browser. When a visitor loads a given web page, its content is requested by the browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and sends back the needed information. If Varnish is activated for a specific website, it will cache the pages on the first visit and in case the user accesses a cached page again, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The accelerated load speed is a result of the substantially faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared with any server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the visitors will keep seeing the exact same content over and over again, because any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform stores in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites under a shared website hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks through your Control Panel. The caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our shared hosting packages and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be used 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 system memory and they’re not directly linked to each other, so you can choose if you need plenty of memory for one single large-scale website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of Varnish in case the websites use a dedicated IP. With the Control Panel, you can quickly start/reboot/deactivate an instance, clear the cached contents individually for each site which uses Varnish or check a detailed system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is a feature, which comes as standard with all semi-dedicated servers that we are offering and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any website that you host in the semi-dedicated account. In case you need more than that, you can increase the memory allowance. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same Upgrades section will permit you to create more instances as well, in case you’d like to use the Varnish platform with more sites. The two things can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of one traffic-hungry website or use several different sites with the default memory. You can get the most out of the Varnish platform if you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated package as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you total control over the caching platform and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you’ll be able to clear the cached files, to check a log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Servers

The Varnish platform is included by default with all VPS servers that we are offering given that the machine is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can boost the overall performance of your websites with only a couple of clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a low-end package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you’ve got a handful of Internet sites, you will notice an immense decrease in the server load and a substantially better web page loading speed. The platform will need to work for a little while as the visitors navigate the pages and as soon as the content has been cached, you’ll see the effects. One of the advantages of employing Varnish is that a less powerful and less costly Virtual Private Server plan will do the exact same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your Internet sites perform better, but you will also save a certain amount of cash.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

When you want the most powerful web hosting solution and you get any of the dedicated servers that we’re offering, you’ll be able to use the Varnish platform to boost the performance of your websites at no additional cost as long as the server is ordered with our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its easy-to-navigate interface will permit you to monitor platform processes, to clear the cached content or to restart any instance with one mouse click. The minimal amount of memory that the Varnish platform can employ to cache site content is 3 gigabytes, which is more than enough for an enormous selection of traffic-intensive sites, so your server will be able to deal with an immense load while your website visitors are enjoying a seamless web browsing experience. Since your dedicated server will include several different dedicated IPs, you will be able to use Varnish’s full capacity.