Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches content for quicker response times. It’s sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and its users. When a site visitor loads a given page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the server processes this browser request and returns the requested content. If Varnish is enabled for a website, it will cache the pages at the very first request and in case the user accesses a cached page once again, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The accelerated loading speed is a result of the substantially faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared with any server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the site visitors will continue being served the very same content over and over again, as any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform keeps in its memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish’s full potential and enhance your websites’ loading speed irrespective of the cloud hosting plan that you’ve picked and you can add and set up the content caching platform with a few clicks of the mouse using the simple-to-use graphical interface offered by our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many websites will use Varnish, i.e. the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can add more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got a lot of content on a particular site and you gain a lot of website visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the Varnish platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you simple one-click buttons for terminating or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with each Internet site and for seeing comprehensive logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish caching platform is an essential part of the standard service set that you will receive in case you choose to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your sites via our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that Varnish can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the websites that can use this caching platform simultaneously. As these two features aren’t bound to each other, you can use a few Internet sites with the default amount of memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for one single website. Varnish works best if you allocate a dedicated IP address to the Internet sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with an easy way of restarting any instance. On top of that, you will be able to clear the cached contents with just one single click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with all our Linux VPS plans when you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform is offered by default and the memory that it’ll be able to use to cache your website content depends on the particular package that you’ve selected, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have no less than several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal only for data caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to boost the work of numerous sites. It will take a little time for you to notice the effects, as Varnish caches the content that site visitors request, but soon thereafter you will notice the substantially lowered load on the server and the accelerated website load speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to make use of a lower-end package for Internet sites that would usually require a more pricey web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll acquire Varnish at no additional charge and you will exert full control over it via a very simple-to-use graphical interface – you will be able to start, to stop or to restart an instance, to see an elaborate log, to delete the cached data 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 have frequently visited Internet sites with an enormous number of visitors, you’ll notice the substantially faster site load speeds and the reduced load on your server. This will become a fact soon after you begin using Varnish, since it will require some time to cache the site content that people request. You can make the most of the platform’s capacity in case the sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that your dedicated server comes with a couple of IP addresses by default, you won’t have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the server itself.