Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator tool that can improve the speed of a website by up to one thousand percent, depending on its content. Whenever a visitor opens 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. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load considerably faster, since Varnish can deliver content many times faster than any server software. The end result will be a substantially faster loading site, which means an improved website browsing experience. In case any of the cached web pages is updated on the live website, the information that Varnish keeps in its memory is updated too, so the visitors will not end up seeing old information.
Varnish in Hosting
You can take advantage of Varnish’s potential and improve the speed of your websites irrespective of the hosting package that you have selected and you can enable and set up the content caching platform with a couple of clicks from the intuitive interface offered by our next-generation Hepsia Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many websites will employ the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can use more instances and less memory and the other way around. In case you’ve got plenty of content on a certain site and you receive plenty of visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the Varnish caching platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with easy one-click controls for stopping or rebooting any instance, for deleting the cache associated with any Internet site and for viewing exhaustive logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting include Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web app accelerator and improve the load speed of any website that you host on our platform. You’ll get 64 megabytes of memory exclusively for Varnish at no additional charge and you will be able to create an instance with no more than a few clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated packages. If you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be available to you instantaneously. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose whether lots of data will be cached for one site or whether the memory will be utilized by multiple sites. Hepsia will allow you to restart or to deactivate any instance, to check the system log for it or to delete the cached files using single-click controls. To take full advantage of Varnish, you can assign a dedicated IP to the sites which will use it.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll obtain the Varnish platform at no additional fee and you’ll have full control over it through a truly time and effort saving GUI – you’ll be able to start, to cancel or to reboot an instance, to view an exhaustive log, to delete the cached files for any website and much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of memory at its disposal, so even if you own traffic-consuming websites with an immense number of visitors, you will notice the tremendously faster website load speeds and the lowered load on your server. This will become a fact shortly after you begin using Varnish, as it will need a certain amount of time to cache the website content that visitors request. You can make the most of the platform’s potential in case the sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that your server comes with a few IPs by default, you will not need to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.