Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for the sake of quicker access. It is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and a browser. When a site visitor opens a specific web page, the content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the server handles this request and delivers the needed information. If Varnish is enabled for a specific website, it will cache its pages on the first request and in case the user opens a cached page again, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The increased speed is an end result of the substantially faster response speed that Varnish offers compared to any web server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the site visitors will keep seeing the same content again and again, because any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its system memory.

Varnish in Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a website hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse via your Control Panel. The content caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our shared packages and you can choose how many sites will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they aren’t tied directly to each other, so you can decide whether you want lots of memory for one single large-scale website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP. With the hosting Control Panel, you can easily start/reboot/shut down an instance, delete the cached content individually for each site which employs the Varnish platform or see a detailed system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated servers offered by us will permit you to employ Varnish as soon as your new semi-dedicated account has been created, since the data caching platform is offered by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this load distribution software once you launch your site. If you are in need of more system memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine in an instant. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly linked to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll enjoy more flexibility. The Varnish platform will substantially lower the load that your sites generate, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform effortlessly from your Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/discontinue any of the instances that you have, to delete the cache associated with any of your sites or to see system log files.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish to enhance the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready to be used at no extra fee, but you’ll also have full control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with GUI. It will take just one single click of the mouse to start or cancel an instance or to clear the cached content associated with any website that is using the Varnish platform and if you are more experienced, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of virtual memory for website content caching purposes, so even if you host an immense number of websites on your dedicated machine and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be apparent. You’ll just have to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever content the site visitors browse on their end. The Varnish platform works best if the websites use a dedicated IP address, but owing to the fact that our servers include 3 free IPs, you will have everything you need.