Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator that can accelerate the loading speed of a site by up to 1000%, depending on its content. Each time a visitor accesses any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor loads it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will open tremendously faster, since the Varnish caching platform can serve data many times faster than any web server software. The end result will be a considerably faster loading website, which means an enormously improved browsing experience. When any of the cached pages is updated on the actual website, the information that Varnish keeps in its system memory is updated too, so the visitors will not end up seeing outdated content.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

If you host your websites in a shared web hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a couple of clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our shared hosting plans and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they aren’t directly tied to each other, so you can decide whether you need a lot of memory for one large-sized site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of Varnish in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/discontinue an instance, delete the cached data independently for each website that uses the Varnish platform or view a detailed log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is a feature, which is included as standard with all semi-dedicated hosting plans offered by our company and you can use it for workload balancing purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can employ it with any site that you host in your semi-dedicated server account. In case you are in need of more, you can increase the memory allowance. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The very same Upgrades section will enable you to create more instances too, in case you would like to use the Varnish caching platform with more sites. The two things can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of one resource-intensive Internet site or run a number of sites with the default memory allowance. You can get the most out of the Varnish caching platform if you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated server plan as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you complete control over the caching platform and, with no more than a click, you’ll be able to clear the cached files, to view a system log or to restart an instance.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with any of our Linux VPS web hosting plans when you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform comes by default and the amount of memory that it’ll be able to use to cache the content of your websites depends on the given VPS package that you’ve chosen, but even with the lower-end plans, you will have no less than several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal only for data caching purposes. This amount is enough to enhance the work of multiple Internet sites. It’ll take a little time for you to see the effects, as the Varnish platform caches the content that site visitors browse, but soon after that you’ll notice the significantly decreased load on the VPS and the accelerated site loading speed. Varnish will permit you to make use of a lower-end VPS package for sites which would normally need a more pricey hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish to increase the load speed of any website 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 data caching platform ready for use at no extra charge, but you’ll also have full control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with interface. It’ll take just one single click of the mouse to start or terminate an instance or to clear the cached files associated with any Internet site that’s using Varnish and in case you are more trained, you can also browse the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than three gigabytes of virtual memory for site content caching purposes, so even if you host lots of sites on your dedicated server and they all use the platform, the difference in their overall performance will be evident. You will only have to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever webpages the visitors load on their end. The Varnish platform works best when the websites use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that our servers include three free-of-charge IP addresses, you’ll have everything you need.