Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web app accelerator tool that can accelerate the speed of a website by up to 1000%, based 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 if the visitor opens it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will open tremendously faster, since the Varnish caching platform can deliver content many times faster than any web server software. The result will be a substantially faster loading site, which means a greatly improved visitor experience. If any of the cached pages is updated on the live website, the content that Varnish stores in its system memory is updated too, so the site visitors will not end up seeing old info.
Varnish in Cloud Hosting
If you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you will be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse from your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our packages and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they’re not tied directly to each other, so you can decide if you want lots of memory for a single large-sized site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of the Varnish platform if the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the Control Panel, you can quickly start/restart/cancel an instance, delete the cached files independently for each site which uses the Varnish platform or view an elaborate log.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
Varnish is a feature, which comes by default with all semi-dedicated service that we are offering and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any site that you host in the account. In case you need more, you can increase the memory allowance. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 MB through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The same Upgrades section will permit you to activate more instances too, in case you want to use Varnish with multiple sites. The two things can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of a single resource-hungry site or run several sites with the default memory allocation. You can get the most out of the Varnish platform if you’ve got a dedicated IP address and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server plan as well. Hepsia will give you total control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you’ll be able to clear the cached files, to view a system log file or to reboot an instance.
Varnish in VPS Servers
The Varnish platform is included by default with each of the Linux VPS servers that we offer on the condition that the Virtual Private Server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can improve the overall performance of your websites with just a few mouse clicks. The more powerful the package, 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 have a number of sites, you’ll notice an enormous reduction in the overall server load and a tremendously better web page load speed. The platform will need to work for a while as the users navigate the site and once the content has been cached, you will distinguish the effect. One of the benefits of using Varnish is that a lower-end and less high-priced Virtual Private Server plan will accomplish the very same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your sites work substantially better, but you’ll also save some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
You can use Varnish to improve the load speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server with us when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on it. Not only will you get the platform ready for use at no extra charge, but you will also exert total control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-work-with graphical interface. It’ll take only a click to start or delete an instance or to clear the cached data for any Internet site that’s using Varnish and if you’re more proficient, you can also see the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 GB of virtual memory for caching purposes, so even in case you run an enormous number of websites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish platform, the improvement in their performance will be noticeable. You will simply have to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the site visitors browse on their end. The platform works best when the websites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our dedicated servers come with 3 free-of-cost IPs, you will have all that you need.