Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web app accelerator tool that can increase the load speed of a site by up to 1000%, depending on the content itself. Each 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 in case the visitor accesses it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will open much faster, since the Varnish platform can deliver content many times faster than any server software. The end result will be a much faster loading website, which leads to an improved website browsing experience. In case any of the cached web pages is updated on the live site, the data that Varnish stores in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the users won’t see old information.

Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each of our cloud web hosting. You can add it to your hosting account from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with all shared packages and you will get a quite simple-to-use GUI, which will give you complete control over the data caching system. Using 1-click fast-access controls, you can reboot or deactivate any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be enabled for a specific website. You can also see an exhaustive log or delete the cache for any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting package, you will be able to choose the total amount of memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for best performance, you can get a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. This will permit you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have many satisfied website users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our Linux semi-dedicated plans include Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web accelerator and boost the speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 megabytes of system memory dedicated to Varnish at no additional charge and you’ll be able to enable an instance with no more than a few clicks of the mouse through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated plans. If you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be available to you immediately. You can also add more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide if lots of data will be cached for a single site or if the memory will be utilized by different sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to reboot or to remove any instance, to check the system log for it or to clear the cached data using single-click buttons. To get the most out of the Varnish accelerator, you can set a dedicated IP address for the sites which will use it.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can use Varnish with any of our VPS server packages at no additional fee, since the caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The only precondition is that the VPS server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you will be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. Each Virtual Private Server plan comes with a different amount of memory for content caching purposes, but you will have at least several hundred megabytes, which is sufficient even for multiple large-size sites. Soon after you set up the Varnish platform, it will start caching the content that your site visitors access, so you will notice the significantly faster webpage load speeds and the decreased load on your virtual machine in no time. The Varnish platform will permit you to use a less high-priced virtual machine, since you won’t require that much power to guarantee the uninterrupted operation of your Internet sites even if you have busy websites with plenty of visitors. Optimum results are achieved if the Internet sites that use the Varnish platform use also a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish to speed up any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company if the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on it. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready for use at no extra fee, but you’ll also exert total control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with interface. It will take only a click to start or discontinue an instance or to delete the cached content for any website that is using the Varnish platform and if you are more advanced, you can also browse the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than three gigabytes of system memory for site content caching purposes, so even if you host an enormous number of websites on your dedicated machine and they all use the caching platform, the improvement in their performance will be distinguishable. You will just have to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever content the site visitors browse on their end. The platform performs best when the websites use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that our servers come with three charge-free IP addresses, you’ll have everything you need.