Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web app accelerator that can boost the loading speed of a website by up to one thousand percent, based on its content. Anytime a visitor accesses any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor accesses it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load significantly faster, as the Varnish platform can serve information many times faster than any web server software. The result is a considerably faster loading site, which leads to a much-improved visitor experience. When any of the cached pages is updated on the actual site, the data that Varnish caches in its system memory is updated as well, so the website visitors will never see out-of-date information.
Varnish in Hosting
We offer Varnish as an optional upgrade with each hosting service and if you would like to use it, you can add it to your shared web hosting account via the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two different features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the websites that you’d like to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, displays the maximum amount of data that the platform can cache at any particular time. Hepsia’s simple-to-use interface will allow you to remove or to restart any instance, to view exhaustive system logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just a click. For maximum results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your website will open much faster, meaning more pleased users and prospective clients.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting services come with Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web app accelerator tool and accelerate any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 megabytes of memory dedicated to the Varnish accelerator at no additional cost and you’ll be able to add an instance with no more than a couple of mouse clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated plans. If you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal right away. 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 whether the available memory will be utilized by several sites. Hepsia will permit you to reboot or to terminate any instance, to view the system log for it or to clear the cached data using 1-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can get a dedicated IP for the sites that will use it.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
You can take full advantage of the workload balancing capabilities of Varnish with all our VPS hosting services in case you choose Hepsia as your Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform is offered by default and the amount of system memory that it will be able to use to cache the content of your sites depends upon the specific Virtual Private Server package that you’ve selected, but even with the less powerful plans, you will have at least several hundred megabytes of system memory at your disposal exclusively for content caching purposes. This amount is enough to optimize the performance of numerous sites. It’ll take some time for you to detect the results, as Varnish caches the content that website visitors access, but soon thereafter you’ll notice the significantly less load on the virtual server and the accelerated website browsing speed. Varnish will allow you to use a less powerful VPS package for sites that would typically need a more costly web hosting solution.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
All Linux dedicated hosting services which are ordered with the custom-built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the server. The Varnish platform can be configured and managed with no effort from Hepsia’s easy-to-use GUI and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you can browse an in-depth log, add or restart an instance, delete the cached files for any Internet site and much, much more. Soon after you enable Varnish for a particular domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the webpages loaded by the site visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you will perceive a significantly better site performance as well as a reduced load on the dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the software platform for load distribution purposes even if you run plenty of websites on your dedicated machine.