Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator tool that can improve the speed of a site by up to 1000%, depending on its content. Anytime a visitor opens 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 web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will open considerably faster, since Varnish can serve data many times faster than any web server software. The end result is a much faster loading website, which means an improved browsing experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual site, the information that Varnish saves in its system memory is updated too, so the visitors will not end up seeing old information.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

If you host your websites under a shared hosting account with our company, you will be able to activate Varnish with several clicks via your Control Panel. The caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our shared web hosting packages and you can select how many websites will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be used for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they’re not linked directly to each other, so you can choose whether you need a lot of memory for one large website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can easily start/restart/delete an instance, delete the cached content individually for each site that uses the Varnish platform or check an exhaustive log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish comes by default with all Linux semi-dedicated packages offered by our company and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It is available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can employ it with any site that you host in the account. If you need more, you can increase the memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The very same section will allow you to activate more instances as well, in case you would like to use Varnish with more websites. The two upgrades can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of one single traffic-heavy site or run a number of websites with the default memory. You can take full advantage of the Varnish caching platform if you’ve got a dedicated IP address and you can order one with your semi-dedicated package as well. Hepsia will give you complete control over the platform and, with no more than one mouse click, you’ll be able to clear the cached content, to check a system log file or to restart an instance.

Varnish in VPS

You can use Varnish with each of our virtual private server packages at no extra fee, since the data caching platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The only requirement is that the VPS must be ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you will be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with just a few clicks. Each package includes a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll have minimum several hundred MB, which is sufficient enough even for several resource-consuming sites. Soon after you set up Varnish, it’ll begin caching the content that your website visitors access, so you’ll notice the tremendously faster site load times and the lowered load on your server in no time. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to use a less costly virtual machine, as you won’t require that many resources to ensure the correct operation of your sites even if you’ve got larger sites with many visitors. Maximum results are accomplished if the Internet sites which use the Varnish caching platform use also a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

If you need a powerful hosting solution and you obtain any of the Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that we offer, you can use the Varnish platform to boost the work of your websites at no extra charge on the condition that the server is ordered with our innovative Hepsia Control Panel. Its simple-to-navigate graphical interface will allow you to monitor platform processes, to clear the cache or to reboot any instance with a click. The minimum amount of system memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache site content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for a vast collection of traffic-heavy Internet sites, so your dedicated server will be able to handle a substantial system load while your website visitors are enjoying a smooth web browsing experience. Since your server will come with several dedicated IP addresses, you’ll be able to make use of Varnish’s full capacity.