Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web application accelerator that can increase the loading speed of a website by up to one thousand percent, based on its content. Whenever a visitor accesses any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server if the visitor loads it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will open substantially faster, since the Varnish caching platform can deliver information many times faster than any server software. The result will be a substantially faster loading page, which means a greatly improved website browsing experience. If any of the cached webpages is updated on the actual site, the data that Varnish keeps in its system memory is updated as well, so the site visitors will never end up seeing old content.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
If you host your sites under a shared hosting account with our company, you will be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks through your Control Panel. The caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our plans and you can select the number of the websites that will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be available for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they’re not directly tied to each other, so you can choose whether you need plenty of memory for one single large website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unlock the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP. With the Control Panel, you can quickly start/reboot/shut down an instance, delete the cached files individually for each site that employs Varnish or view an elaborate log file.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Varnish data caching platform is included in the standard service set that you’ll get in case you choose to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can activate it for any of your websites through our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache data is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the websites that can use this caching platform simultaneously. As these two features aren’t linked to each other, you can use several websites with the default amount of memory or you can order more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single web site. Varnish works best if you get a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will give you an easy means of restarting any instance. On top of that, you’ll be able to clear the cached content with just one single mouse click.
Varnish in VPS Servers
You can use the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with all our VPS service if you choose Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes by default and the amount of system memory that it’ll be able to use to cache your site content is dependent on the specific Virtual Private Server package that you’ve picked, but even with the less powerful plans, you will have no less than several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal only for content caching purposes. This amount is sufficient enough to boost the overall performance of numerous sites. It will take some time for you to distinguish the effects, as the Varnish platform caches the content that site visitors request, but shortly thereafter you’ll notice the significantly decreased load on the server and the enhanced Internet site loading speed. Varnish will permit you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server package for websites that would normally require a more expensive hosting solution.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll obtain the Varnish data caching platform at no additional fee and you will exert full control over it via a very simple-to-navigate graphical interface – you will be able to start, to deactivate or to restart an instance, to browse an exhaustive log, to clear the cache for any website and much, much more. The Varnish caching platform will have several GB of system memory at its disposal, so even if you manage traffic-consuming websites with numerous visitors, you will notice the significantly better page loading times and the less load on the server. This will happen soon after you begin using Varnish, as it will require some time to cache the web pages that people open. You can make the most of the platform’s capabilities in case the sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your server comes with several IP addresses by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of the monthly fee for the server itself.