Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches info for the sake of quicker access. It’s sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and a web browser. When a website visitor loads a given page, its content is requested by the browser, and then the server processes this browser request and sends back the necessary info. If Varnish is enabled for a particular website, it will cache its pages on the first request and if the visitor visits a cached page again, the data will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the web server. The boosted speed is an end result of the much faster response speed that Varnish offers as compared with any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the site visitors will continue being served the exact same content again and again, since any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its memory.
Varnish in Web Hosting
We offer Varnish as an optional upgrade with each and every Linux web hosting package and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your shared account using the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re two separate features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the memory. The first one depends on the number of the websites that you want to use Varnish for and the second one, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, indicates the maximum amount of data that the data caching platform can store at any given moment. Hepsia’s easy-to-use interface will allow you to disable or to restart any instance, to check elaborate system logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just one click. For best results, you can use a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your site will load significantly faster, meaning more pleased visitors and prospective customers.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated packages come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the accelerator and accelerate any site that you host on our platform. You will get 64 MB of system memory exclusively for Varnish at no extra charge and you will be able to activate an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server plans. In case you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal right away. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if a lot of content will be cached for one website or whether the available memory will be utilized by several sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to reboot or to delete any instance, to view the system log associated with it or to delete the cached content using one-click controls. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can set a dedicated IP for the sites that will use it.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
All Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that are ordered with the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated machine. The Varnish data caching platform can be set up and administered without efforts through Hepsia’s intuitive GUI and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you can see an exhaustive system log, create or restart an instance, delete the cached content associated with any site and much more. Shortly after you enable Varnish for a specific domain or subdomain, it will start caching the webpages accessed by your visitors and once it has cached enough content, you’ll witness a significantly better website performance in addition to a lowered load on the dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at three gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for load balancing purposes even if you host plenty of Internet sites on your dedicated machine.