Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches info for faster access. It is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and an Internet browser. When a website visitor opens a given web page, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the web server handles this request and sends back the necessary info. If Varnish is activated for a website, it will cache the pages on the first request and if the visitor opens a cached page for a second time, the data will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the server. The boosted speed is a result of the significantly faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the site visitors will keep being served the same content again and again, as any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform keeps in its system memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

You can unleash Varnish’s potential and improve your websites’ loading speed irrespective of the cloud hosting plan that you have selected and you can add and set up the platform with a few clicks from the user-friendly graphical interface offered by our cutting-edge Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many Internet sites will use Varnish, i.e. the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can use more instances and less memory and the other way around. If you have plenty of content on a particular Internet site and you attract a lot of website visitors, more memory will guarantee you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. Hepsia will offer you easy 1-click buttons for stopping or restarting any instance, for deleting the cache for each website and for checking in-depth system logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated hosting plans come with Varnish by default, so you can make use of the web app accelerator and enhance the loading speed of any website that you host on our platform. You will get 64 MB of memory dedicated to the Varnish accelerator at no additional charge and you can create an instance with no more than a couple of clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server packages. In case you want more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal instantaneously. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose whether lots of data will be cached for one site or if the memory will be used by multiple sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to reboot or to discontinue any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to clear the cached files using one-click controls. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can set a dedicated IP for the websites which will employ it.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

All dedicated web hosting plans that are ordered with the in-house developed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated server. The Varnish platform can be activated and managed without efforts through Hepsia’s easy-to-navigate graphical interface and, with no more than one single click, you can check an in-depth system log, create or reboot an instance, delete the cached data associated with any site and much more. Shortly after you activate the Varnish platform for a given domain or subdomain, it will start caching the webpages requested by your site visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you’ll witness a significantly faster website performance in addition to a reduced load on your dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at three gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for workload distribution purposes even if you run lots of sites on the dedicated server.