Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web application accelerator that can improve the load speed of a site by up to 1000%, based on its content. Every time a visitor accesses any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor accesses it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load substantially faster, as Varnish can deliver data many times faster than any web server software. The end result is a much faster loading website, which leads to an immensely improved website browsing experience. When any of the cached webpages is updated on the actual site, the data that Varnish stores in its system memory is updated as well, so the users won’t end up seeing out-of-date content.

Varnish in Website Hosting

If you host your websites in a website hosting account with us, you’ll be able to add Varnish with several mouse clicks through your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our plans and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of system memory and they’re not tied directly to each other, so you can choose whether you need lots of memory for one single large-scale site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/disable an instance, delete the cached data independently for each site that employs Varnish or check an in-depth system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish comes by default with all semi-dedicated servers offered by our company and you can use it for workload balancing purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can employ it with any Internet site that you host in your semi-dedicated account. If you need more, you can increase the system memory allocation. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The same Upgrades section will permit you to create more instances as well, if you would like to use the Varnish caching platform with multiple Internet sites. The two upgrades can be ordered separately – you can cache the content of one resource-intensive Internet site or run a number of Internet sites with the default memory. You can take full advantage of Varnish in case you have a dedicated IP address and you can get one with your semi-dedicated server package as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you full control over the platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you will be able to delete the cached files, to view a log file or to restart an instance.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can use Varnish to optimize the load speed of any site that is hosted on a dedicated server from our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready to be used at no extra charge, but you will also exert complete control over it via Hepsia’s intuitive GUI. It will take just one single click to start or shut down an instance or to delete the cached content associated with any website that is using Varnish and in case you’re more trained, you can also check the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of memory for site content caching purposes, so even in case you run an enormous number of Internet sites on your dedicated server and they all use the Varnish platform, the difference in their overall performance will be noticeable. You will only need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever webpages the website visitors open on their end. The platform works best when the websites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our servers come with three charge-free IPs, you will have all that you need.