Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator that can accelerate the load speed of a site by up to 1000 percent, depending on the content itself. 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 load considerably faster, since the Varnish platform can deliver data many times faster than any web server software. The end result is a substantially faster loading site, which means a much-improved visitor experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the live website, the information that Varnish stores in its memory is updated as well, so the website visitors will never end up seeing outdated info.
Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting
Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux cloud web hosting. You can add it to your account via the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all shared hosting packages and you’ll get an exceptionally simple-to-use GUI, which will give you full control over the data caching system. Using 1-click quick-access buttons, you can reboot or remove any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer work for a particular site. You can also view a comprehensive log or erase the cache for any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting plan, you will be able to choose the total amount of memory that will be available to you for content caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for top performance, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your sites and to have plenty of happy site visitors.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Varnish is an essential part of the basic set of services that you will receive if you choose to host your sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can set it up for any of your Internet sites through our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache data is 64 megabytes, but in case you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this amount of memory from the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the websites that can use this platform at the same time. As these two things are not tied to each other, you can use a few websites with the default amount of memory or you can get more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single web site. The Varnish platform performs best when you set a dedicated IP address for the sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will give you an easy means of rebooting any instance. On top of that, you’ll be able to delete the cached content with only one single mouse click.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
Varnish comes by default with all VPS hosting that we’re offering as long as the server is ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you can optimize the work of your websites with only a few clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the plan, the more memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a low-end package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you manage a handful of Internet sites, you will notice an immense reduction in the server load and a tremendously better page load speed. The platform will have to work for a little while while the users navigate the website and once the site content has been cached, you’ll notice the effects. One of the advantages of employing Varnish is that a less powerful and less costly VPS package will do the very same job as a more expensive one without the caching platform, so not only will your sites perform better, but you will also save some money.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
All Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that are ordered with the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel include Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the dedicated machine. The Varnish platform can be configured and managed without any effort via Hepsia’s user-friendly GUI and, with no more than one single click, you can see an in-depth log, add or reboot an instance, clear the cached files associated with any Internet site and much more. Soon after you set up Varnish for a particular domain or sub-domain, it will start caching the pages browsed by your site visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you’ll observe a substantially faster website performance as well as a reduced load on your server. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload balancing purposes even if you host many sites on your server.