Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches content for the sake of faster access. It’s sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and a web browser. When a site visitor opens a given web page, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the server processes this browser request and delivers the requested data. If Varnish is activated for a certain site, it will cache its pages on the first request and if the user accesses a cached page once again, the data will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the web server. The improved load speed is a result of the significantly faster response speed that Varnish offers compared to any server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the site visitors will keep being served the exact same content again and again, as any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform stores in its memory.
Varnish in Website Hosting
If you host your sites under a website hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse from your Control Panel. The caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our shared web hosting packages and you can select how many sites will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they aren’t directly tied to each other, so you can choose whether you need lots of memory for a single large-size website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can use the full potential of Varnish if the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/terminate an instance, clear the cached data individually for each website which employs Varnish or see an elaborate system log.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Varnish is part of the basic service set that you will receive in case you choose to host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account. You can configure it for any of your sites via our advanced Hepsia Control Panel. The default memory that Varnish can use to cache content is 64 MB, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the sites that can use this platform simultaneously. Since these two things are not bound to each other, you can use a couple of websites with the default memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 MB and use all of it for a single website. Varnish performs best if you set a dedicated IP address for the websites that utilize its power. Hepsia will offer you an easy means of restarting any instance. What’s more, you’ll be able to clear the cached content with just one mouse click.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
The Varnish data caching platform comes by default with each of the Linux VPS hosting packages that we are offering given that the Virtual Private Server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can boost the performance of your sites with only a couple of clicks. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a low-end plan, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you’ve got a handful of sites, you’ll notice a significant reduction in the server load and a significantly faster webpage loading speed. The platform will need to work for a little while while the visitors browse the site and once the website content has been cached, you’ll notice the results. One of the pros of employing Varnish is that a less powerful and less high-priced VPS plan will do the same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your Internet sites perform better, but you’ll also save some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
If you want a more powerful website hosting solution and you purchase one of the Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that we are offering, you’ll be able to use Varnish to improve the overall performance of your sites at no additional cost on the condition that the dedicated machine is ordered with our innovative Hepsia Control Panel. Its simple-to-navigate interface will allow you to keep track of platform processes, to delete the cache or to reboot any instance with one single click. The smallest amount of system memory that the Varnish caching platform can employ to cache Internet site content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for a vast collection of large sites, so your server will be able to cope with a colossal system load while your visitors are enjoying a smooth browsing experience. As your server will come with a number of dedicated IP addresses, you’ll be able to make use of Varnish’s full potential.