Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches info for faster access. It’s occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and a browser. When a website visitor accesses a particular page, the content is requested by the web browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and returns the needed information. If Varnish is activated for a website, it will cache the pages at the very first request and in case the user visits a cached page for a second time, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the web server. The accelerated speed is an end result of the significantly faster response speed that Varnish offers as compared to any server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the website visitors will continue being served the exact same content over and over again, as any change on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish caches in its system memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our cloud hosting. You can add it to your account through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is offered with all shared packages and you will get an amazingly simple-to-work-with GUI, which will grant you full control over the content caching platform. Using one-click fast-access buttons, you can restart or remove any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be enabled for a particular Internet site. You can also see an in-depth log file or clear the cache for any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your hosting package, you will be able to choose the maximum amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for top performance, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to get the most out of your sites and to have lots of pleased users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated servers include Varnish by default, so you can use the web application accelerator and boost the speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of system memory dedicated to the Varnish accelerator at no extra fee and you will be able to enable an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server plans. If 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 available to you momentarily. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide whether plenty of content will be cached for a single site or if the memory will be used by different websites. Hepsia will enable you to reboot or to stop any instance, to see the system log file associated with it or to clear the cached content using 1-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can get a dedicated IP address for the sites which will use it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take full advantage of the load balancing potential of Varnish with each of our Linux VPS servers when you pick Hepsia as your Control Panel. The data caching platform is offered by default and the amount of system memory that it’ll be able to utilize to cache the content of your websites depends upon the particular VPS plan that you have picked, but even with the lower-end plans, you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal only for caching purposes. This amount is enough to improve the performance of numerous Internet sites. It will take some time for you to see the results, as the Varnish platform caches the content that visitors open, but after that you’ll notice the significantly less load on the Virtual Private Server and the improved Internet site loading speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to make use of a less powerful Virtual Private Server plan for Internet sites that would typically need a more high-priced web hosting service.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish in order to accelerate the loading speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server with us if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready to be used at no additional charge, but you’ll also exert complete control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with interface. It’ll take only one single click of the mouse to start or remove an instance or to delete the cached data associated with any Internet site that is using the Varnish platform and in case you’re more practiced, you can also browse the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of system memory for web content caching purposes, so even in case you host a huge number of websites on your dedicated server and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be obvious. You’ll only have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever web pages the site visitors browse on their end. The platform works best when the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that our dedicated servers come with 3 cost-free IPs, you’ll have everything you need.