Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches info for faster access. It’s sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and a browser. When a site visitor opens a certain web page, the content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and returns the required information. If Varnish is enabled for a particular website, it will cache the pages at the first request and if the visitor accesses a cached page once more, the data will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the web server. The increased load speed is a result of the much faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared with any server software. Of course, this does not mean that the site visitors will continue being served the same content again and again, since any modification on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish saves in its memory.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our shared hosting. You can add it to your hosting account via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is available with all shared hosting plans and you’ll get an exceptionally simple-to-work-with interface, which will grant you full control over the data caching platform. Using 1-click fast-access controls, you can restart or terminate any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer work for a given website. You can also view a detailed system log file or delete the cache for any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting plan, you will be able to choose the total amount of system memory that will be available to you for content 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 optimal performance, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have many pleased users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated servers that we offer will permit you to use Varnish as soon as your new account is active, since the caching platform is offered by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can use this load balancing software as soon as you launch your site. In case you’re in need of more memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine straight away. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of memory that you use, which suggests that you’ll have more versatility. The Varnish caching platform will substantially decrease the load on the semi-dedicated machine that your sites produce, so your visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish without effort through the Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/delete any of the instances that you have, to clear the cached data for any of your sites or to view system logs.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the workload balancing potential of Varnish with all our VPS servers in case you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform is offered by default and the amount of memory that it will be able to use to cache the content of your sites depends on the particular VPS plan that you’ve selected, but even with the lower-end plans, you will have no less than several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal exclusively for data caching purposes. This amount is enough to enhance the overall performance of numerous websites. It’ll take some time for you to see the results, since Varnish caches the content that website visitors open, but shortly after that you’ll notice the considerably less load on the machine and the improved site browsing speed. Varnish will permit you to use a lower-end package for Internet sites which would typically require a more costly hosting solution.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish in order to boost the loading speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready for use at no extra charge, but you’ll also have full control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-navigate GUI. It will take only one single click of the mouse to start or shut down an instance or to delete the cached data for any Internet site that’s using the Varnish platform and if you are more trained, you can also view the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than three gigabytes of memory for caching purposes, so even if you run an enormous number of websites on your server and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be visible. You will just have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever content the website visitors open on their end. The Varnish platform performs best if the websites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers include 3 free-of-cost IPs, you will have everything you need.