Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator tool that can boost the speed of a site by up to 1000 percent, based on the content itself. Every time a visitor opens any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor loads it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will open substantially faster, since Varnish can deliver data many times faster than any web server software. The result is a much faster loading site, which means an enormously improved visitor experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the live Internet site, the info that Varnish stores in its system memory is updated too, so the site visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date content.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

In case you host your sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you will be able to add Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse through your hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared web hosting plans and you can select how many websites will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they aren’t linked directly to each other, so you can choose whether you want lots of memory for one large-sized website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/shut down an instance, delete the cached files individually for each site which uses the Varnish platform or see an elaborate system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Varnish platform is part of the standard set of services that you’ll receive if you choose to host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your websites via our cutting-edge Hepsia Control Panel. The default amount of system memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache content is 64 MB, but if 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, i.e. the number of the websites that can use this caching platform simultaneously. As these two things are not bound to each other, you can use a couple of Internet sites with the default amount of memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for a single website. Varnish performs best if you set a dedicated IP address for the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with a simple means of rebooting any instance. On top of that, you will be able to clear the cached data with only one click of the mouse.

Varnish in VPS

You can take advantage of Varnish with any of our virtual private server plans at no additional charge, as the caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The only precondition is that the VPS server must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you will be able to set up Varnish for any of your Internet sites with only a few clicks. Each VPS package includes a different amount of system memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll get no less than several hundred MB, which is quite enough even for multiple resource-requiring websites. Soon after you activate the Varnish platform, it’ll begin caching the content that your site visitors open, so you will notice the considerably better site loading speeds and the lowered load on the machine very soon. The caching platform will allow you to use a less expensive server, since you will not need that many resources to warrant the proper operation of your Internet sites even if you manage resource-heavy Internet sites with numerous visitors. Best results are achieved if the sites that use Varnish use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

All Linux dedicated hosting which are ordered with the custom-developed Hepsia web hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the server. The Varnish platform can be set up and managed with ease via the Hepsia Control Panel’s user-friendly graphical interface and, with no more than one single click, you can browse an exhaustive log, add or reboot an instance, delete the cache for any Internet site and much, much more. Shortly after you set up Varnish for a specific domain or subdomain, it will start caching the web pages opened by the visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you will observe a tremendously faster site performance as well as a decreased load on the dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload balancing purposes even if you host a vast number of websites on your dedicated machine.