Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches content for quicker access. It’s sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and a browser. When a website visitor loads a certain web page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and delivers the necessary data. If Varnish is enabled for a given website, it will cache the pages at the first visit and if the visitor opens a cached page for a second time, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the server. The boosted loading speed is an end result of the substantially faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the visitors will keep being served the very same content again and again, as any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish stores in its memory.
Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting
You can unleash Varnish’s full potential and enhance the speed of your sites regardless of the cloud website hosting plan that you’ve selected and you can add and configure the content caching platform with a couple of clicks of the mouse through the user-friendly interface offered by our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you will be able to select two different things – how many sites will employ the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 MB and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can use more instances with less memory and the other way around. In case you have plenty of content on a given Internet site and you get a lot of visitors, more memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will offer you easy one-click buttons for cancelling or rebooting any instance, for erasing the cache for each website and for checking exhaustive system logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated packages include Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web app accelerator tool and boost the speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of memory particularly for the Varnish accelerator at no extra cost and you can enable an instance with no more than a couple of clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated packages. If you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal momentarily. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide whether lots of data will be cached for one website or whether the memory will be used by multiple sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to restart or to cancel any instance, to see the system log file associated with it or to delete the cached data using single-click controls. To get the most out of Varnish, you can assign a dedicated IP to the websites that will employ it.
Varnish in VPS
Varnish is included by default with each of the Linux VPS offered by our company given that the virtual machine is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can improve the overall performance of your websites with only a couple of clicks. The more powerful the package, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a lower-end package, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you’ve got several different Internet sites, you will notice a significant reduction in the overall server load and a substantially faster page load speed. The platform will need to work for a little while while the users browse the pages and once the content has been cached, you’ll perceive the result. One of the advantages of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less pricey plan will do the same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your Internet sites work substantially better, but you’ll also save some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
You can use Varnish in order to accelerate the loading speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server with us if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready for use at no additional cost, but you will also have full control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s intuitive GUI. It will take only one single click to start or delete an instance or to delete the cache associated with any Internet site that’s using Varnish and in case you’re more tech-savvy, you can also see the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 GB of memory for data caching purposes, so even if you run a lot of sites on your machine and they all use the platform, the difference in their performance will be evident. You will just have to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the website visitors browse on their end. The platform performs best when the Internet sites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers include three free IP addresses, you’ll have all that you need.