Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for faster response times. It’s occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and an Internet browser. When a website visitor opens a particular web page, the content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the server handles this request and returns the needed information. If Varnish is activated for a specific site, it will cache the pages on the first request and if the user accesses a cached page once again, the information will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the server. The accelerated load speed is an end result of the considerably faster response time that the Varnish platform offers compared with any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the visitors will continue seeing the exact same content over and over again, since any change on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish caches in its system memory.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
If you host your sites in a shared hosting account with us, you will be able to add Varnish with a few clicks from your Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an upgrade with all our hosting packages and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached data. 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 are not directly tied to each other, so you can choose whether you want lots of memory for one single large-sized site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of the Varnish caching platform if the sites use a dedicated IP. With the Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/remove an instance, clear the cached contents individually for each site which employs Varnish or view a comprehensive log.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages include Varnish by default, so you can make use of the accelerator and optimize the loading speed of any website that you host on our platform. You will get 64 megabytes of system memory exclusively for the Varnish accelerator at no extra fee and you can enable an instance with no more than a few clicks of the mouse through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server packages. In case you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you immediately. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose whether lots of content will be cached for a single website or whether the memory will be used by multiple Internet sites. Hepsia will allow you to restart or to disable any instance, to view the system log file associated with it or to delete the cached data using one-click controls. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can set a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use it.
Varnish in VPS Web Hosting
You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with all our Linux VPS web hosting packages when you choose Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is available by default and the system memory that it’ll be able to use to cache the content of your websites depends on the specific Virtual Private Server plan that you have chosen, but even with the lower-end plans, you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal only for data caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to boost the work of multiple websites. It’ll take a little time for you to distinguish the effects, since the Varnish platform caches the content that site visitors access, but soon after that you will notice the significantly lowered load on your virtual server and the increased Internet site loading speed. The Varnish platform will permit you to make use of a lower-end Virtual Private Server package for sites which would normally require a more costly hosting solution.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting
When you need a powerful hosting solution and you get any of the Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that we offer, you will be able to use the Varnish caching platform to enhance the overall performance of your sites at no extra cost as long as the server is ordered with our next-gen Hepsia Control Panel. Its intuitive graphical interface will enable you to keep an eye on system processes, to clear the cached content or to reboot any instance with one single click of the mouse. The minimal amount of system memory that Varnish can use to cache website content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for an immense number of resource-intensive sites, so your dedicated server will be able to deal with a massive system load while your visitors are enjoying a seamless web browsing experience. As your machine will come with several dedicated IPs, you’ll be able to use Varnish’s maximum capacity.