Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web application accelerator that can boost the speed of a site by up to one thousand percent, depending on the content itself. Anytime a visitor accesses any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor opens it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load considerably faster, since the Varnish caching platform can serve information many times faster than any web server software. The result will be a much faster loading website, which leads to an improved website browsing experience. When any of the cached webpages is updated on the actual site, the content that Varnish keeps in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the visitors will not end up seeing outdated information.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
We offer Varnish as an optional upgrade with each and every shared hosting plan and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your shared account via the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two different things that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the memory. The first one pertains to the number of the sites that you want to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which comes in increments of 32 MB, shows the maximum amount of content that the content caching platform can store at any given time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s time and effort saving interface will permit you to deactivate or to reboot any instance, to see comprehensive system logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For best results, you can employ a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your website will open substantially faster, which means more satisfied site users and potential customers.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
Varnish is offered by default with all semi-dedicated servers that we are offering and you can use it for workload distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any site that you host in your semi-dedicated server account. In case you are in need of more than that, you can increase the system memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The exact same Upgrades section will permit you to create more instances as well, in case you’d like to use the Varnish platform with multiple Internet sites. The two upgrades can be added separately – you can cache the content of one resource-intensive site or run several different Internet sites with the default memory allocation. You can take full advantage of the Varnish caching platform if you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated server package as well. Hepsia will give you complete control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you will be able to delete the cached files, to see a log or to reboot an instance.
Varnish in VPS Servers
The Varnish caching platform comes by default with all Linux VPS plans that we are offering given that the server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can optimize the overall performance of your websites with only a couple of clicks. The more powerful the package, the more memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a low-end plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you own a handful of sites, you will notice a great reduction in the overall server load and a substantially faster site load speed. The platform will have to work for a while while the visitors browse the pages and as soon as the content has been cached, you’ll distinguish the effect. One of the upsides of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less high-priced Virtual Private Server package will accomplish the very same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your websites work better, but you’ll also spare a certain amount of cash.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will acquire the Varnish caching platform at no additional charge and you will have complete control over it through a truly time and effort saving GUI – you’ll be able to start, to delete or to restart an instance, to browse an elaborate log, to delete the cached data associated with any Internet site and much, much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you’ve got heavy websites with a lot of visitors, you’ll notice the much faster site loading speeds and the less load on the dedicated machine. This will happen soon after you start using Varnish, as it will require a certain amount of time to cache the website content that users browse. You can get the most out of the platform’s capacity in case the sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your dedicated server comes with several IP addresses by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.