Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches info for quicker response times. It is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and an Internet browser. When a visitor loads a certain web page, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and returns the needed information. If Varnish is activated for a specific website, it will cache its pages on the very first visit and if the visitor visits a cached page again, the information will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the server. The improved speed is a result of the considerably faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers compared to any server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the site visitors will keep being served the very same content over and over again, since any change on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its memory.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each of our cloud website hosting. You can add it to your account from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is offered with all shared hosting plans and you will get a truly simple-to-use GUI, which will give you complete control over the data caching platform. Using 1-click quick-access controls, you can restart or discontinue any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer work for a certain website. You can also check a detailed log file or erase the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting plan, you will be able to select the total amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for caching purposes and the number of the websites that will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for maximum performance, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your websites and to have lots of gratified users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated servers come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the website accelerator tool and increase the load speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 megabytes of memory dedicated to Varnish at no additional fee and you can activate an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated plans. If you want more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you momentarily. You can also order more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide if a lot of content will be cached for a single site or if the available memory will be used by multiple websites. The Hepsia Control Panel will enable you to reboot or to discontinue any instance, to check the system log associated with it or to clear the cached data using single-click buttons. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can assign a dedicated IP to the sites that will employ it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

We offer Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped VPS servers, so if you obtain a server with this web hosting Control Panel, you will be able to take advantage of the content caching platform at no additional fee. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of memory for data caching purposes depending on the particular setup that you have selected during the subscription process, but in any case, this amount will not be less than several hundred megabytes. This is more than enough to improve the overall performance of a number of resource-absorbing Internet sites, so the faster page load speeds and the lowered load on the VPS will be noticeable. The effect may not be detectable immediately, since Varnish will require a certain amount of time to cache the site content that people request, but shortly after you set it up, you’ll witness its full potential. This caching platform will permit you to use a lower-end VPS server and to pay less cash to get the very same performance you’d get with a higher-end virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated servers which are ordered with the in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the machine. The Varnish caching platform can be activated and administered effortlessly from the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-use GUI and, with no more than one click, you can view a comprehensive system log, create or restart an instance, delete the cache associated with any site and much more. Shortly after you set up Varnish for a given domain or sub-domain, it will begin caching the web pages opened by your site visitors and as soon as it has cached enough content, you will perceive a substantially better website performance plus a decreased load on your dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at three gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for workload distribution purposes even if you host multiple sites on your dedicated machine.