Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for faster response times. It’s occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and an Internet browser. When a visitor loads a particular web page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the server handles this request and delivers the requested info. If Varnish is enabled for a specific site, it will cache its pages on the very first visit and in case the visitor opens a cached page for a second time, the info will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the server. The boosted load speed is an end result of the substantially faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared with any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the website visitors will continue seeing the very same content over and over again, because any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its memory.
Varnish in Shared Web Hosting
Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each shared web hosting and if you want to use it, you can add it to your account through the Upgrades section 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 refers to the number of the websites that you would like to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 32 MB, shows the maximum amount of data that the data caching platform can cache at any given time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-use GUI will allow you to shut down or to reboot any instance, to see elaborate system logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For maximum results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your website will open considerably faster, which means more happy site users and prospective clients.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
The semi-dedicated servers that we offer will permit you to employ Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated account has been activated, since the data caching platform is offered by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can use this workload balancing software once your site has been published on the Internet. In case you’re in need of more memory, you can order 32 MB at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated machine in a flash. You can also increase the number of the websites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll have more freedom. The Varnish caching platform will seriously reduce the load on the semi-dedicated machine produced by your sites, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform effortlessly through your Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/shut down any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached files associated with any of your sites or to view system logs.
Varnish in VPS Servers
The Varnish platform is included by default with all VPS servers that we are offering on the condition that the virtual machine is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can improve the work of your websites with only a few clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the package, the more memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a less powerful plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you have a handful of Internet sites, you will notice an enormous reduction in the overall server load and a significantly faster web page loading speed. The Varnish platform will have to work for a while as the users navigate the web pages and once the website content has been cached, you will distinguish the effects. One of the benefits of using Varnish is that a lower-end and less high-priced plan will do the very same job as a more costly one without the platform, so not only will your sites work significantly better, but you’ll also spare some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
You can use Varnish in order to speed up any site that is hosted on a dedicated server from us if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready to be used at no extra fee, but you will also have full control over it through Hepsia’s simple-to-use graphical interface. It’ll take just one single click of the mouse to start or stop an instance or to delete the cache associated with any website that’s using Varnish and in case you are more experienced, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of system memory for data caching purposes, so even if you run a large number of websites on your server and they all use the Varnish caching platform, the improvement in their performance will be detectable. You’ll only need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever pages the site visitors open on their end. The Varnish platform performs best if the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but since our dedicated servers come with 3 free-of-cost IPs, you will have all that you need.