Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches data for the sake of faster access. It is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and a browser. When a site visitor opens a specific webpage, its content is requested by the browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and returns the requested data. If Varnish is activated for a certain site, it will cache the pages at the first visit and in case the visitor visits a cached page once more, the info will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the server. The increased load speed is a result of the much faster response time that the Varnish platform offers compared to any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the visitors will keep being served the same content over and over again, because any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its memory.
Varnish in Web Hosting
You can make use of Varnish’s potential and improve the loading speed of your sites regardless of the web hosting package that you’ve picked and you can activate and configure the platform with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the simple-to-work-with graphical interface offered by our cutting-edge Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be able to select two separate things – how many sites will employ the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can use more instances with less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got a lot of content on a given Internet site and you receive numerous site visitors, more memory will guarantee you better results. You may also consider using a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will offer you easy one-click controls for cancelling or rebooting any instance, for erasing the cache associated with any Internet site and for seeing exhaustive system logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the accelerator and accelerate the load speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 MB of system memory particularly for Varnish at no additional cost and you will be able to create an instance with no more than a few clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated packages. In case you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal right away. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide if a lot of data will be cached for one website or if the memory will be utilized by several Internet sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to reboot or to shut down any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to delete the cached content using one-click controls. To get the most out of Varnish, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the Internet sites which will use it.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
You can take advantage of Varnish with all our virtual private server plans at no additional cost, since the caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only condition is that the VPS server must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with only a couple of mouse clicks. Each VPS package features a different amount of system memory for content caching purposes, but you will get at least several hundred MB, which is sufficient enough even for several popular websites. Shortly after you enable Varnish, it’ll start caching the content that your visitors open, so you’ll notice the substantially faster Internet site load times and the less load on the Virtual Private Server in no time. The platform will allow you to use a less pricey VPS, since you won’t need that much power to warrant the correct operation of your websites even if you’ve got large-scale sites with many visitors. Optimal results are accomplished if the sites which use the Varnish platform use also a dedicated IP.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
All Linux dedicated web hosting that are ordered with the custom Hepsia website hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated server. The Varnish platform can be activated and managed without any effort through Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with GUI and, with no more than one single click, you can view a comprehensive system log, create or reboot an instance, delete the cache associated with any Internet site and much more. Soon after you enable the Varnish platform for a certain domain or sub-domain, it will start caching the web pages browsed by the visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you’ll witness a considerably better website performance in addition to a reduced load. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for workload distribution purposes even if you host an enormous number of Internet sites on the dedicated machine.