Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web application accelerator tool that can accelerate the load speed of a website by up to 1000%, depending on the content itself. Anytime a visitor accesses any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor opens it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will load considerably faster, as the Varnish platform can serve data many times faster than any web server software. The end result is a substantially faster loading website, which means an enormously improved visitor experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the live site, the content that Varnish saves in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the site visitors won’t see outdated content.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

You can use Varnish’s full potential and enhance the loading speed of your websites regardless of the shared website hosting package that you’ve chosen and you can enable and configure the content caching platform with a couple of mouse clicks through the simple-to-work-with interface offered by our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. During the process, you will be able to select two different things – how many Internet sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can add more instances with less memory and the other way around. If you’ve got lots of content on a particular website and you win a lot of visitors, more memory will give you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will provide you with easy one-click controls for turning off or restarting any instance, for erasing the cache for each Internet site and for seeing elaborate logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Varnish content caching platform is included in the basic set of services that you’ll acquire when you choose to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your websites through our next-generation Hepsia Control Panel. The default amount of system memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache content is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you want more, you can upgrade this amount from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, in other words – the number of the sites that can use this platform at the same time. As these two things are not tied to each other, you can use a few instances with the default memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single Internet site. The Varnish caching platform works best if you allocate a dedicated IP to the sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will provide you with a simple means of rebooting any instance. Also, you’ll be able to clear the cached contents with just a click.

Varnish in VPS Servers

The Varnish caching platform comes by default with each of the VPS servers offered by our company given that the virtual server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can optimize the performance of your sites with only a couple of clicks. The more powerful the package, the more system memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a low-end package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you run a number of Internet sites, you will notice an enormous reduction in the overall server load and a tremendously faster site loading speed. The platform will have to work for a little while as the visitors navigate the web pages and once the site content has been cached, you will distinguish the results. One of the pluses of using Varnish is that a lower-end and less high-priced package will do the very same job as a more pricey one without the caching platform, so not only will your sites work much better, but you will also save a certain amount of money.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish in order to optimize the speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company when the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no extra cost, but you’ll also have complete control over it via Hepsia’s easy-to-use GUI. It will take just one single mouse click to start or cancel an instance or to clear the cached data associated with any Internet site that’s using the Varnish platform and in case you’re more advanced, you can also browse the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 gigabytes of memory for website content caching purposes, so even if you run many websites on your server and they all use the Varnish platform, the difference in their performance will be observable. You’ll just have to wait for a while until Varnish caches whatever webpages the visitors access on their end. The Varnish platform works best if the sites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our servers come with 3 free-of-charge IPs, you’ll have everything you need.