Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches info for quicker response times. It’s occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and its users. When a visitor opens a specific page, its content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and returns the needed data. If Varnish is activated for a particular site, it will cache the pages on the first visit and in case the user accesses a cached page once more, the content will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web server. The accelerated load speed is a result of the much faster response speed that Varnish offers as compared to any server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the website visitors will keep being served the exact same content again and again, because any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform keeps in its memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each cloud hosting plan and if you want to use it, you can add it to your website hosting account via the Upgrades section in your Hepsia Control Panel. There are two different things that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one depends on the number of the websites that you would like to use Varnish for and the second one, which comes in increments of 32 MB, indicates the total amount of data that the data caching platform can store at any particular moment. Hepsia’s intuitive interface will enable you to terminate or to restart any instance, to view elaborate system logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just one click. For optimal results, you can employ a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your site will load substantially faster, meaning more happy users and potential customers.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated hosting plans offered by our company will allow you to employ Varnish once your new account has been opened, as the caching platform is offered by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can take advantage of this load balancing software as soon as your website has been launched online. If you need more system memory, you can add 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server momentarily. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not bound directly to the amount of memory that you use, which suggests that you will enjoy more flexibility. The Varnish caching platform will noticeably decrease the load on the server that your sites generate, so your visitors can enjoy fast-opening web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish platform without any effort from your Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You will be able to start/stop any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached content associated with any of your Internet sites or to view system logs.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll get Varnish at no additional fee and you’ll have total control over it via a quite simple-to-use interface – you will be able to start, to discontinue or to restart an instance, to check an exhaustive system log, to clear the cached content for any site and much more. The Varnish caching platform will have several GB of system memory at its disposal, so even if you have large websites with lots of visitors, you’ll notice the significantly faster web page load times and the decreased load on the machine. This will become a fact soon after you begin using the Varnish platform, since it will require a certain amount of time to cache the content that people browse. You can make the most of the platform’s capacity in case the sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that your server includes a few IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.