Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches information for quicker access. It is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and an Internet browser. When a site visitor opens a particular webpage, the content is requested by the browser, and then the server processes this request and sends back the necessary info. If Varnish is activated for a specific website, it will cache the pages on the very first request and if the user opens a cached page once more, the information will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the web server. The increased loading speed is a result of the substantially faster response time that the Varnish platform offers compared with any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the website visitors will keep being served the exact same content again and again, because any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its system memory.

Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting

Our company offers Varnish as an optional upgrade with each Linux cloud web hosting service and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your website hosting account through the Upgrades section in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re two different things that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one pertains to the number of the Internet sites that you wish to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which is offered in increments of 32 MB, displays the maximum amount of content that the content caching platform can cache at any given moment. Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with graphical interface will allow you to stop or to reboot any instance, to view in-depth logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For maximum results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your website will open substantially faster, meaning more pleased site users and potential clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting that we offer will allow you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand-new semi-dedicated server account has been opened, as the data caching platform is available by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this workload balancing software as soon as you launch your website. If you are in need of more system memory, you can get 32 MB at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated server straight away. You can also increase the number of the websites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly linked to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you will enjoy more freedom. The Varnish caching platform will seriously lower the load that your sites cause, so your visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish caching platform without efforts from the Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached content for any of your Internet sites or to see system logs.

Varnish in VPS Hosting

You can use Varnish with each of our virtual private server plans at no extra cost, since the content caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only condition is that the virtual machine must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you will be able to activate Varnish for any of your Internet sites with just a couple of clicks. Each package includes a different amount of memory for content caching purposes, but you will have no less than several hundred megabytes, which is sufficient enough even for multiple regularly visited Internet sites. Soon after you enable Varnish, it will start caching the content that your visitors open, so you will notice the significantly better webpage loading times and the reduced load on your server in no time. The caching platform will allow you to use a less costly VPS server, as you won’t require that many resources to guarantee the correct operation of your websites even if you run resource-requiring Internet sites with multiple visitors. Best results are accomplished if the sites which use the Varnish platform use also a dedicated IP.