Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches info for faster access. It’s occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and its users. When a visitor opens a particular page, the content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the server processes this browser request and returns the requested data. If Varnish is activated for a particular site, it will cache its pages at the very first visit and in case the visitor opens a cached page once again, the information will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the web server. The accelerated speed is an end result of the much faster response time that Varnish offers as compared with any web server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the website visitors will continue being served the exact same content again and again, since any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish keeps in its system memory.

Varnish in Website Hosting

You can make use of Varnish’s potential and accelerate your sites’ load speed regardless of the website hosting plan that you’ve picked and you can enable and configure the data caching platform with several clicks of the mouse through the simple-to-use interface offered by our innovative Hepsia Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to choose two different things – how many Internet sites will employ the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can use more instances with less memory and the other way around. In case you’ve got a lot of content on a certain site and you receive plenty of visitors, more system memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you simple one-click buttons for discontinuing or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with each website and for checking comprehensive system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated hosting plans include Varnish by default, so you can make use of the web accelerator tool and increase the load speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of system memory dedicated to Varnish at no extra fee and you’ll be able to add an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated packages. If you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal momentarily. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can choose whether plenty of content will be cached for one site or whether the memory will be used by multiple sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to reboot or to discontinue any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to delete the cached content using single-click buttons. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can assign a dedicated IP to the sites that will use it.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish to optimize the loading speed of any website that is hosted on a dedicated server with us if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on it. Not only will you get the caching platform ready for use at no extra charge, but you’ll also have complete control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with GUI. It’ll take just one click of the mouse to start or disable an instance or to delete the cached files for any Internet site that is using the Varnish platform and in case you’re more experienced, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of virtual memory for data caching purposes, so even if you host many sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the caching platform, the difference in their performance will be detectable. You’ll simply need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever web pages the site visitors open on their end. The platform works best when the sites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our servers include 3 charge-free IP addresses, you’ll have all that you need.