Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches info for quicker response times. It is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and its users. When a visitor opens a certain web page, the content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the web server processes this request and returns the requested content. If Varnish is enabled for a particular website, it will cache the pages at the first visit and if the user visits a cached page for a second time, the information will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the web server. The boosted speed is a result of the considerably faster response time that the Varnish platform offers compared to any web server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the visitors will keep being served the exact same content over and over again, as any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish stores in its memory.

Varnish in Hosting

We offer Varnish as an optional upgrade with each hosting plan and if you want to use it, you can add it to your shared web hosting account using the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the websites that you’d like to employ Varnish for and the second one, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, pertains to the maximum amount of content that the content caching platform can cache at any particular time. Hepsia’s user-friendly GUI will enable you to stop or to reboot any instance, to see elaborate system logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For optimum results, you can employ a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your site will open significantly faster, which means more happy visitors and potential customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is offered by default with all semi-dedicated plans that we offer and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The 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 your account. If you need more than that, you can increase the memory allocation. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same Upgrades section will permit you to enable more instances as well, if you would like to use the Varnish platform with more sites. The two things can be added independently – you can cache the content of one single traffic-hungry website or use several sites with the default memory quota. You can take full advantage of the Varnish caching platform in case you have a dedicated IP address and you can get one with your semi-dedicated plan as well. Hepsia will grant you total control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you will be able to delete the cached files, to check a log or to reboot an instance.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish to improve the loading speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is pre-installed on it. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready for use at no extra cost, but you’ll also have total control over it through Hepsia’s intuitive graphical interface. It’ll take just one mouse click to start or shut down an instance or to delete the cached files associated with any Internet site that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you are more proficient, you can also view the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least 3 GB of virtual memory for caching purposes, so even in case you host plenty of Internet sites on your dedicated server and they all use the caching platform, the difference in their overall performance will be evident. You’ll only have to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever web pages the website visitors access on their end. The platform performs best if the websites use a dedicated IP address, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers include 3 free-of-charge IP addresses, you will have all that you need.