Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches data for the sake of faster access. It’s sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and a web browser. When a visitor loads a specific page, its content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the server handles this browser request and sends back the needed data. If Varnish is enabled for a specific site, it will cache the pages at the first request and if the user visits a cached page once more, the info will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the server. The increased speed is a result of the substantially faster response speed that Varnish offers as compared to any server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the users will keep seeing the exact same content again and again, since any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform stores in its memory.
Varnish in Shared Website Hosting
You can use Varnish’s full potential and improve your websites’ load speed irrespective of the shared website hosting plan that you have chosen and you can activate and set up the platform with a couple of clicks using the easy-to-work-with GUI offered by our innovative Hepsia Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two separate things – how many sites will use Varnish, i.e. the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 MB and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can use more instances and less memory and the other way around. In case you’ve got plenty of content on a particular site and you draw lots of site visitors, more memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will offer you easy 1-click buttons for shutting down or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache for each site and for viewing in-depth system logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
All our semi-dedicated plans come with Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web application accelerator tool and increase the speed of any website that you host on our platform. You’ll get 64 megabytes of memory exclusively for Varnish at no extra charge and you can add an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated packages. In case you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal instantly. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if a lot of content will be cached for one website or whether the memory will be used by different sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will enable you to reboot or to deactivate any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to delete the cached files using single-click buttons. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can assign a dedicated IP to the websites that will use it.
Varnish in VPS Servers
You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with any of our VPS hosting plans if you pick Hepsia as your Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes by default and the amount of memory that it will be able to use to cache your website content depends upon the given Virtual Private Server plan that you’ve selected, but even with the lower-end plans, you’ll have no less than several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal solely for caching purposes. This amount is enough to optimize the overall performance of multiple Internet sites. It will take some time for you to observe the results, as the Varnish platform caches the content that website visitors request, but after that you will notice the considerably less server load and the improved website load speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to make use of a less powerful plan for Internet sites which would usually need a more costly hosting service.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
When you need the most powerful web hosting solution and you acquire any of the dedicated web hosting plans that we’re offering, you will be able to use the Varnish caching platform to enhance the overall performance of your sites at no additional fee as long as the dedicated machine is ordered with our avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel. Its user-friendly interface will permit you to keep track of platform processes, to delete the cached files or to restart any instance with one single mouse click. The smallest amount of memory that Varnish can use to cache website content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for an enormous selection of resource-demanding sites, so your dedicated server will be able to deal with a substantial load while your website visitors are having a smooth web browsing experience. Since your machine will come with several dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to make use of Varnish’s full capacity.