Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web app accelerator tool that can increase the loading speed of a site by up to 1000%, based on the content itself. 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 if the visitor loads it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will load considerably faster, as Varnish can serve data many times faster than any web server software. The result is a substantially faster loading website, which leads to an enormously improved visitor experience. If any of the cached webpages is updated on the live website, the info that Varnish keeps in its memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the users will not see out-of-date information.
Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting
In case you host your websites in a cloud website hosting account with our company, you will be able to activate Varnish with a couple of mouse clicks from your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared packages and you can choose the number of the sites that will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they’re not linked directly to each other, so you can decide if you want plenty of memory for a single large-sized site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of the Varnish caching platform if the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/cancel an instance, clear the cached files individually for each website that employs Varnish or check an elaborate log.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
All our Linux semi-dedicated plans include Varnish by default, so you can make use of the web app accelerator tool and accelerate the loading speed of any site that you host on our platform. You will get 64 MB of memory dedicated to Varnish at no extra cost and you can create an instance with no more than a couple of clicks via the Hepsia hosting 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 through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you straight away. You can also order more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide whether lots of content will be cached for a single site or whether the memory will be utilized by multiple websites. Hepsia will allow you to reboot or to cancel any instance, to view the system log for it or to delete the cached files using 1-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the websites which will employ it.
Varnish in VPS Servers
The Varnish platform is included by default with all Linux VPS servers offered by us given that the VPS server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can improve the overall performance of your sites with just a few mouse clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a lower-end package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you run a handful of websites, you will notice an immense decrease in the server load and a substantially faster web page loading speed. The platform will have to work for a little while while the visitors browse the site and as soon as the website content has been cached, you’ll see the result. One of the pros of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less costly plan will accomplish the same job as a more expensive one without the caching platform, so not only will your websites perform substantially better, but you will also save a certain amount of money.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
You can use Varnish to enhance the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready for use at no additional charge, but you’ll also have complete control over it via Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with GUI. It’ll take just one click of the mouse to start or stop an instance or to clear the cached files for any website that is using the Varnish platform and if you’re more sophisticated, you can also view the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of system memory for caching purposes, so even if you host a huge number of sites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the improvement in their performance will be observable. You’ll only have to wait for a little while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the website visitors access on their end. The Varnish platform works best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that our servers come with three free IP addresses, you will have all that you need.