Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a website accelerator that can improve the load speed of a site by up to 1000%, depending on its content. Each time 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 opens it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will load considerably faster, since the Varnish caching platform can deliver content many times faster than any web server software. The end result will be a substantially faster loading site, which means an improved browsing experience. When any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual site, the information that Varnish caches in its memory is updated as well, so the site visitors will never end up seeing old info.
Varnish in Cloud Hosting
You can make use of Varnish’s full potential and enhance your sites’ speed irrespective of the cloud hosting package that you’ve selected and you can add and set up the platform with a few clicks via the easy-to-use graphical interface offered by our advanced Hepsia Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to choose two separate things – how many sites will use the Varnish caching platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can use more instances and less memory and the other way around. If you have a lot of content on a certain website and you draw numerous visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider using a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use Varnish. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with simple 1-click buttons for switching off or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache for each site and for checking exhaustive logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Varnish is a feature, which comes as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we are offering and you can use it for workload distribution purposes. It is available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any website that you host in the semi-dedicated server account. In case you’re in need of more than that, you can increase the system memory allocation. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The exact same section will allow you to create more instances as well, in case you would like to use Varnish with multiple sites. The two things can be added independently – you can cache the content of a single traffic-hungry Internet site or use several sites with the default memory quota. You can take full advantage of the Varnish caching platform in case you have a dedicated IP and you can get one with your semi-dedicated package as well. Hepsia will give you total control over the platform and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you’ll be able to delete the cached data, to check a system log file or to reboot an instance.
Varnish in VPS Web Hosting
You can take advantage of Varnish with each of our virtual private server plans at no extra fee, as the content caching platform is pre-installed and is available by default. The sole prerequisite is that the virtual server must come with the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your websites with just a couple of mouse clicks. Each package includes a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you will get minimum several hundred megabytes, which is quite enough even for multiple resource-absorbing sites. Shortly after you set up Varnish, it’ll begin caching the content that your visitors access, so you will notice the considerably better webpage loading speeds and the lowered load on the server very soon. The Varnish caching platform will permit you to use a less costly virtual machine, since you won’t need that many resources to ensure the uninterrupted operation of your Internet sites even if you have resource-demanding Internet sites with multiple visitors. Maximum results are accomplished if the sites which use the Varnish platform also use a dedicated IP.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting
If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you will get the Varnish data caching platform at no additional fee and you’ll exert total control over it through a truly time and effort saving GUI – you’ll be able to start, to cancel or to reboot an instance, to view a comprehensive system log, to clear the cache for any Internet site and much, much more. Varnish will have several GB of system memory at its disposal, so even if you host resource-absorbing Internet sites with multiple visitors, you will notice the much faster website load times and the decreased load. This will become a fact shortly after you begin using the Varnish platform, as it will require some time to cache the pages that visitors request. You can take full advantage of the platform’s potential if the sites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that your server comes with several IPs by default, you will not need to pay anything on top of the monthly fee for the server itself.