Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web application accelerator tool that can improve the loading speed of a website by up to 1000 percent, depending on its content. Anytime a visitor opens any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor loads it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load much faster, as the Varnish platform can serve information many times faster than any server software. The result will be a much faster loading page, which means a much-improved browsing experience. In case any of the cached pages is updated on the live website, the content that Varnish caches in its system memory is updated too, so the users will not end up seeing out-of-date data.
Varnish in Web Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our Linux web hosting packages. You can add it to your hosting account from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is available with all shared plans and you will get a truly simple-to-work-with GUI, which will give you complete control over the content caching system. Using 1-click fast-access controls, you can reboot or stop any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be enabled for a certain site. You can also view an elaborate log or clear the cache associated with any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting plan, you’ll be able to choose the total amount of memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and the number of the websites that will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for optimum performance, you can set a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your websites and to have plenty of happy site visitors.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Varnish is a feature, which comes by default with all Linux semi-dedicated packages that we offer and you can use it for workload distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform comes with 64 megabytes of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any Internet site that you host in your semi-dedicated account. In case you’re in need of more than that, you can increase the system memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The same section will enable you to add more instances as well, in case you wish to use Varnish with more sites. The two things can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of one single regularly visited site or use a number of Internet sites with the default memory quota. You can get the most out of the Varnish caching platform in case you have a dedicated IP address and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server package as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you complete control over the platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you will be able to delete the cached content, to view a system log or to restart an instance.
Varnish in VPS
The Varnish caching platform is included by default with all Linux VPS packages offered by us given that the server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can optimize the performance of your websites with only a few clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a less powerful package, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you manage a number of Internet sites, you’ll notice an immense decrease in the overall server load and a substantially better webpage loading speed. The Varnish platform will have to work for a while as the visitors browse the web pages and once the content has been cached, you will observe the results. One of the upsides of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less pricey Virtual Private Server package will do the same job as a more expensive one without the caching platform, so not only will your sites perform considerably better, but you will also spare a certain amount of money.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will acquire the Varnish content caching platform at no additional fee and you will have complete control over it through a truly easy-to-work-with GUI – you will be able to start, to stop or to reboot an instance, to view an exhaustive system log, to clear the cached data associated with any Internet site and much, much more. Varnish will have several gigabytes of system memory at its disposal, so even if you’ve got traffic-hungry Internet sites with multiple visitors, you will notice the considerably better website load times and the less load on the server. This will happen shortly after you start using the Varnish platform, since it will require some time to cache the web pages that visitors open. You can make the most of the platform’s capacity in case the websites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your server includes a few IPs by default, you will not need to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the server itself.