Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for quicker response times. It is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and an Internet browser. When a website visitor opens a certain web page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the server handles this request and sends back the necessary info. If Varnish is enabled for a given site, it will cache the pages on the first visit and in case the user opens a cached page once again, the content will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the server. The increased loading speed is a result of the much faster response time that Varnish offers as compared with any web server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the website visitors will continue seeing the same content again and again, as any modification on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish caches in its memory.
Varnish in Shared Website Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux shared website hosting. You can add it to your hosting account through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared web hosting plans and you will get a truly simple-to-work-with graphical interface, which will give you complete control over the content caching platform. Using 1-click fast-access buttons, you can reboot or turn off any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be enabled for a given website. You can also see a detailed system log or delete the cache associated with any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your shared web hosting package, you’ll be able to select the maximum amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for content caching purposes and how many sites will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for optimum performance, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that will use Varnish. This will enable you to get the most out of your Internet sites and to have lots of satisfied site visitors.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting include Varnish by default, so you can take advantage of the web application accelerator and accelerate the load speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 MB of memory particularly for Varnish at no additional cost and you will be able to add an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse via the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated server plans. In case you want more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you instantaneously. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can choose if a lot of content will be cached for one website or if the available memory will be used by multiple Internet sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to restart or to disable any instance, to view the system log file for it or to delete the cached data using one-click buttons. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can assign a dedicated IP to the Internet sites that will employ it.
Varnish in VPS Web Hosting
The Varnish data caching platform comes by default with each of the Linux VPS web hosting that we offer given that the machine is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can improve the performance of your sites with just a few clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a less powerful package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you’ve got several different websites, you will notice an enormous reduction in the server load and a tremendously faster site loading speed. The platform will need to work for a while as the visitors navigate the site and once the website content has been cached, you’ll see the effect. One of the advantages of employing Varnish is that a less powerful and less costly package will do the very same job as a more costly one without the caching platform, so not only will your Internet sites work considerably better, but you’ll also spare some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting
All Linux dedicated servers hosting that are ordered with the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated machine. The Varnish content caching platform can be configured and administered with no effort via Hepsia’s user-friendly GUI and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you can browse an exhaustive log, create or reboot an instance, delete the cached files for any website and much, much more. Shortly after you enable Varnish for a specific domain or sub-domain, it will start caching the web pages accessed by the site visitors and once it has cached enough content, you will observe a considerably better site performance plus a reduced load on the server. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload distribution purposes even if you run plenty of sites on the machine.