Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web application accelerator tool that can improve the loading speed of a site by up to 1000%, depending on the content itself. 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 opens it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will open significantly faster, as the Varnish caching platform can serve information many times faster than any server software. The result will be a significantly faster loading website, which means a much-improved visitor experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the live site, the info that Varnish saves in its memory is ‘refreshed’ too, so the visitors won’t end up seeing outdated information.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish’s full potential and accelerate your websites regardless of the cloud hosting plan that you have chosen and you can enable and configure the content caching platform with a few clicks of the mouse via the intuitive graphical interface offered by our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the procedure, you will be able to select two separate things – how many websites will use the Varnish caching platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 MB and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can order more instances with less memory and the other way around. In case you have a lot of content on a specific Internet site and you draw numerous site visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will offer you easy 1-click controls for terminating or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with each Internet site and for checking elaborate system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is a feature, which is included as standard with all semi-dedicated hosting offered by us and you can use it for workload balancing purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The data caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any site that you host in the semi-dedicated server account. If you need more than that, you can increase the memory quota. 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 enable more instances as well, in case you want to use the Varnish platform with more Internet sites. The two things can be added separately – you can cache the content of one single resource-consuming Internet site or run several websites with the default memory allocation. You can get the most out of the Varnish platform in case you use a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server plan as well. Hepsia will grant you total control over the platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you will be able to clear the cached content, to check a log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-equipped VPS hosting, so in case you get a server with this hosting Control Panel, you will be able to take full advantage of the caching platform at no additional charge. Varnish can utilize different amounts of system memory for data caching purposes depending on the very VPS plan that you have chosen on the order page, but nevertheless, this amount won’t be less than several hundred MB. This is quite enough to improve the work of a handful of resource-hungry sites, so the faster page loading speeds and the less load on your VPS server will be discernible. The effect may not be visible instantly, as Varnish will need a certain amount of time to cache the content that users browse, but shortly after you activate it, you’ll feel its full capacity. This platform will allow you to use a lower-end server and to give less cash to get the same performance you’d get with a more powerful machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will acquire the Varnish content caching platform at no additional charge and you’ll have full control over it via an amazingly simple-to-work-with GUI – you’ll be able to start, to disable or to restart an instance, to view an elaborate log, to clear the cached data for any site and much, much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of memory at its disposal, so even if you host large-sized websites with an enormous number of visitors, you’ll notice the substantially better web page load speeds and the lowered load on your server. This will happen soon after you begin using the Varnish platform, since it will require some time to cache the site content that users open. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capability in case the Internet sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP address, but since your dedicated server includes several IPs by default, you will not need to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.