Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator tool that can boost the loading speed of a site by up to 1000 percent, depending on its content. Anytime 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 opens it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will open tremendously faster, as the Varnish platform can serve content many times faster than any web server software. The end result is a much faster loading page, which leads to a much-improved visitor experience. When any of the cached webpages is updated on the live Internet site, the information that Varnish stores in its memory is updated too, so the site visitors won’t see out-of-date information.
Varnish in Website Hosting
If you host your websites under a website hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to add Varnish with a couple of mouse clicks via your hosting Control Panel. The content caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our shared web hosting packages and you can choose how many websites will use it and the total storage space that will be used for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they are not tied directly to each other, so you can decide if you want plenty of memory for a single large-size site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of the Varnish platform if the sites use a dedicated IP. Using the Control Panel, you can swiftly start/reboot/delete an instance, delete the cached files independently for each website that employs the Varnish platform or view a detailed log.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our semi-dedicated packages come with Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web app accelerator and boost the load speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 MB of memory dedicated to Varnish at no extra charge and you can create an instance with no more than a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated plans. If you need more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you instantaneously. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can choose if plenty of data will be cached for a single site or whether the memory will be utilized by different sites. Hepsia will enable you to restart or to delete any instance, to view the system log file for it or to clear the cached content using one-click buttons. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can assign a dedicated IP to the Internet sites which will use it.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
The Varnish caching platform comes by default with all Linux VPS hosting packages that we offer as long as the machine is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can improve the work of your websites with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the package, the more memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a less powerful plan, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you have several different websites, you’ll notice a substantial reduction in the overall server load and a significantly faster site load speed. The Varnish caching platform will need to work for a while while the visitors navigate the website and as soon as the site content has been cached, you’ll see the result. One of the advantages of using Varnish is that a less powerful and less costly package will accomplish the exact same job as a more high-priced one without the caching platform, so not only will your sites work considerably better, but you’ll also spare some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
When you need the most powerful website hosting solution and you acquire any of the Linux dedicated web hosting that we’re offering, you can use the Varnish caching platform to boost the work of your websites at no extra fee on the condition that the dedicated machine is ordered with our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its easy-to-work-with GUI will permit you to keep an eye on system processes, to delete the cached data or to restart any instance with one single click of the mouse. The minimum amount of system memory that the Varnish caching platform can employ to cache content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for an immense collection of large-sized sites, so your dedicated server will be able to deal with a substantial system load while your Internet site visitors are enjoying a smooth web browsing experience. As your dedicated machine will include several different dedicated IP addresses, you’ll be able to use Varnish’s maximum potential.