Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of quicker access. It’s occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and its users. When a website visitor accesses a given webpage, the content is requested by the browser, and then the server handles this request and sends back the needed content. If Varnish is activated for a particular website, it will cache its pages on the first visit and in case the visitor opens a cached page once more, the content will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the web server. The improved load speed is an end result of the considerably faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared with any server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the website visitors will keep seeing the very same content over and over again, since any change on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform caches in its system memory.
Varnish in Cloud Hosting
You can use Varnish’s full potential and accelerate your websites’ loading speed regardless of the cloud hosting plan that you have picked and you can enable and set up the platform with several clicks from the user-friendly graphical interface offered by our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many Internet sites will employ the Varnish platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can use more instances with less memory and the other way around. If you have lots of content on a certain website and you win lots of site visitors, more system memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will provide you with simple one-click controls for terminating or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with each website and for checking elaborate system logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Varnish comes as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It is available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any site that you host in your account. If you’re in need of more than that, you can increase the system memory allocation. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The very same Upgrades section will allow you to enable more instances as well, in case you’d like to use the Varnish caching platform with multiple Internet sites. The two upgrades can be added independently – you can cache the content of one large website or run a number of Internet sites with the default memory. You can take full advantage of Varnish if you have a dedicated IP address and you can order one with your semi-dedicated package as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you total control over the platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you will be able to clear the cached contents, to see a system log file or to reboot an instance.
Varnish in VPS
You can take full advantage of the workload balancing potential of Varnish with each of our Linux VPS if you select Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes by default and the system memory that it will be able to utilize to cache your website content depends on 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 data caching purposes. This amount is sufficient enough to boost the work of numerous websites. It’ll take a little time for you to observe the results, as Varnish caches the content that website visitors browse, but after that you’ll notice the considerably less load on the server and the increased site loading speed. The Varnish platform will permit you to use a less powerful plan for websites which would normally require a more pricey web hosting service.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
You can employ Varnish in order to speed up any website that is hosted on a dedicated server with us when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready to be used at no extra charge, but you will also have total control over it through the Hepsia Control Panel’s user-friendly graphical interface. It’ll take just one mouse click to start or terminate an instance or to clear the cached data for any site that is using Varnish and in case you’re more tech-savvy, you can also see the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for content caching purposes, so even if you host many websites on your dedicated machine and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their performance will be apparent. You will just have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever pages the website visitors browse on their end. The platform works best if the sites use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that our servers come with 3 cost-free IPs, you will have everything you need.