Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of faster access. It is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and its users. When a visitor opens a particular webpage, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the server handles this request and delivers the requested content. If Varnish is enabled for a given site, it will cache its pages on the first request and in case the visitor visits a cached page once again, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the web server. The increased load speed is an end result of the substantially faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers compared to any server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the site visitors will continue being served the same content again and again, as any modification on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish caches in its system memory.
Varnish in Cloud Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each Linux cloud package and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your shared website hosting account through the Upgrades section in your Hepsia Control Panel. There’re two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the Internet sites that you’d like to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which comes in increments of 32 megabytes, displays the total amount of data that the data caching platform can cache at any particular time. Hepsia’s simple-to-use GUI will permit you to shut down or to reboot any instance, to check detailed system logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just one 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 tremendously faster, meaning more happy visitors and potential clients.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages include Varnish by default, so you can make use of the web app accelerator tool and boost the load speed of any website that you host on our platform. You will get 64 MB of memory particularly for the Varnish accelerator at no additional cost and you can create an instance with no more than a couple of clicks via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server plans. If you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal instantly. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if lots of content will be cached for one site or if the memory will be used by different sites. Hepsia will allow you to reboot or to deactivate any instance, to check the system log file associated with it or to clear the cached data using 1-click buttons. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can set a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will employ it.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
You can employ Varnish to accelerate any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the content caching platform ready to be used at no extra cost, but you will also exert total control over it through Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface. It’ll take just one mouse click to start or stop an instance or to delete the cache associated with any website that is using the Varnish platform and if you’re more tech-savvy, you can also check the platform’s logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for caching purposes, so even in case you host many Internet sites on your server and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their performance will be evident. You will simply need to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever web pages the site visitors browse on their end. The platform performs best when the Internet sites use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that our servers come with 3 free-of-charge IP addresses, you’ll have all that you need.