Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web accelerator that can accelerate the load speed of a website by up to 1000 percent, depending on the content itself. Each time a visitor opens 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. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will open substantially faster, as Varnish can deliver information many times faster than any server software. The result is a considerably faster loading page, which leads to a greatly improved website browsing experience. In case any of the cached webpages is updated on the live Internet site, the content that Varnish saves in its system memory is updated as well, so the visitors will never end up seeing out-of-date info.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

If you host your sites under a shared hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform comes as an upgrade with all our shared hosting plans and you can select how many sites will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be available for the cached content. The two features that can be upgraded in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they aren’t directly tied to each other, so you can choose if you want a lot of memory for one large-scale website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of Varnish if the websites use a dedicated IP address. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/disable an instance, clear the cached files individually for each website which employs the Varnish platform or see an exhaustive log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated service offered by us will allow you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand-new semi-dedicated account has been activated, as the content caching platform comes by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this load distribution software once your website has been built. If you’re in need of more memory, you can get 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine instantly. You can also increase the number of the sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly bound to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll have more flexibility. The Varnish caching platform will immensely lower the load caused by your websites, so your visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish with no effort from the Control Panel using quick-access controls. You’ll be able to start/delete any of the instances that you have, to clear the cache for any of your Internet sites or to view system logs.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take advantage of Varnish with any of our VPS server packages at no additional cost, since the platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only condition is that the virtual server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with only a few clicks. Each VPS plan offers a different amount of memory for content caching purposes, but you will have minimum several hundred megabytes, which is enough even for multiple traffic-intensive Internet sites. Shortly after you enable the Varnish platform, it will start caching the content that your site visitors browse, so you will notice the significantly better Internet site loading speeds and the reduced server load in no time. Varnish will permit you to use a less costly VPS server, since you won’t require that many resources to guarantee the proper operation of your sites even if you’ve got busy sites with a lot of visitors. Best results are accomplished if the Internet sites that use the Varnish platform also use a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you need a more powerful hosting solution and you buy any of the dedicated service offered by us, you’ll be able to use the Varnish data caching platform to improve the overall performance of your sites at no extra charge on the condition that the dedicated server is ordered with our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its simple-to-work-with GUI will enable you to keep an eye on platform processes, to clear the cache or to restart any instance with one single click of the mouse. The minimum amount of system memory that the caching platform can use to cache Internet site content is 3 GB, which is quite enough for a vast selection of resource-requiring websites, so your dedicated server will be able to handle a huge load while your site visitors are enjoying a smooth web browsing experience. As your machine will come with a number of dedicated IPs, you will be able to make use of Varnish’s full capacity.