Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a website accelerator that can improve the speed of a site by up to 1000%, based on its content. Each time a visitor opens any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server if the visitor opens it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will open much faster, since the Varnish platform can serve information many times faster than any server software. The result is a significantly faster loading page, which leads to an improved website browsing experience. In case any of the cached web pages is updated on the live site, the info that Varnish stores in its system memory is updated too, so the visitors will never see outdated data.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each and every shared package and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your shared account using the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two different things that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the sites that you wish to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which comes in increments of 32 MB, displays the total amount of content that the platform can store at any given moment. Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with GUI will allow you to shut down or to restart any instance, to view in-depth logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just one click. For optimal results, you can employ a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your site will load much faster, meaning more happy visitors and potential clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is a feature, which comes by default with all semi-dedicated hosting that we’re offering and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can employ it with any website that you host in the semi-dedicated account. If you’re in need of more than that, you can increase the system memory allocation. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The same Upgrades section will allow you to create more instances as well, if you’d like to use the Varnish platform with more websites. The two things can be ordered separately – you can cache the content of one single busy Internet site or use several different websites with the default memory. You can take full advantage of Varnish if you’ve got a dedicated IP address and you can get one with your semi-dedicated server package as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you full control over the platform and, with no more than a click, you will be able to delete the cached contents, to see a system log file or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in VPS

We provide Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped Linux VPS packages, so in case you buy a server with this Control Panel, you will be able to take advantage of the data caching platform at no additional charge. The Varnish platform can utilize different amounts of system memory for content caching purposes depending on the very VPS plan that you have chosen on the order form, but in any case, this amount will not be less than several hundred MB. This is more than enough to boost the overall performance of a number of resource-heavy sites, so the better website browsing speeds and the decreased load on the virtual server will be perceivable. The effect may not be observable straight away, as Varnish will need a certain amount of time to cache the website content that users access, but soon after you enable it, you’ll observe its full potential. This caching platform will permit you to use a lower-end Virtual Private Server and to give less cash to get the exact same performance you’d get with a more powerful virtual machine without Varnish.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

All dedicated hosting that are ordered with the in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated machine. The Varnish caching platform can be activated and managed without any effort from Hepsia’s simple-to-navigate interface and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you can browse an in-depth log, add or reboot an instance, delete the cached content associated with any website and much, much more. Soon after you enable Varnish for a specific domain or sub-domain, it will start caching the webpages browsed by the visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you will witness a substantially faster site performance and a reduced load on your dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for workload distribution purposes even if you host many websites on the dedicated machine.