Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator tool that can improve the load speed of a site by up to one thousand percent, depending on its content. Whenever a visitor opens 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 accesses it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will open considerably faster, as Varnish can deliver information many times faster than any server software. The result is a substantially faster loading site, which means a much-improved website browsing experience. In case any of the cached pages is updated on the actual Internet site, the data that Varnish caches in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the website visitors will never see old content.
Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting
You can unleash Varnish’s full potential and optimize your websites’ loading speed irrespective of the cloud website hosting package that you have chosen and you can enable and set up the data caching platform with several clicks of the mouse through the easy-to-work-with interface offered by our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be able to select two different things – how many Internet sites will employ the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and vice versa. In case you’ve got a lot of content on a particular website and you receive numerous visitors, more memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the Varnish caching platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you simple one-click controls for stopping or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with any website and for checking comprehensive system logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The semi-dedicated hosting that we offer will permit you to use Varnish as soon as your brand-new semi-dedicated account has been activated, since the platform is available by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this load balancing software once your website has been published to the web. In case you need more memory, you can order 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated server straight away. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not bound directly to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll have more flexibility. The Varnish caching platform will greatly lower the load on the semi-dedicated machine generated by your websites, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform with ease via the Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You will be able to start/cancel any of the instances that you have, to clear the cached files associated with any of your websites or to view system logs.
Varnish in VPS
The Varnish data caching platform comes by default with all VPS offered by us as long as the machine is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can enhance the overall performance of your websites with only a few mouse clicks. The more powerful the package, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a lower-end plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you manage a handful of Internet sites, you will notice an immense decrease in the overall server load and a tremendously better website load speed. The Varnish caching platform will need to work for a while as the visitors navigate the website and once the content has been cached, you will perceive the results. One of the pros of employing Varnish is that a lower-end and less costly VPS plan will do the same job as a more expensive one without the caching platform, so not only will your sites work much better, but you’ll also save some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
All Linux dedicated hosting which are ordered with the custom-developed Hepsia web hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated machine. The Varnish caching platform can be enabled and managed with ease from Hepsia’s time and effort saving GUI and, with no more than one single click, you can see an in-depth system log, create or restart an instance, clear the cached files associated with any site and much, much more. Soon after you set up Varnish for a specific domain or subdomain, it will start caching the web pages browsed by your website visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you will perceive a considerably better website performance as well as a lowered load on the server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the platform for workload distribution purposes even if you run a large number of sites on your machine.