Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for quicker access. It is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and its users. When a website visitor loads a specific webpage, its content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this request and delivers the required information. If Varnish is activated for a site, it will cache the pages on the very first request and if the user visits a cached page once more, the information will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the web server. The increased loading speed is a result of the substantially faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the users will keep being served the same content again and again, because any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish keeps in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

You can take advantage of Varnish’s full potential and improve your sites’ speed regardless of the shared hosting package that you’ve selected and you can enable and set up the data caching platform with a few mouse clicks using the easy-to-work-with GUI offered by our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. During the procedure, you will be able to choose two separate things – how many Internet sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can use more instances with less memory and vice versa. If you have a lot of content on a particular Internet site and you attract numerous website visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with easy 1-click buttons for cancelling or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache for any site and for seeing exhaustive logs.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish is a feature, which comes as standard with all semi-dedicated hosting plans that we are offering and you can use it for workload balancing purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can employ it with any Internet site that you host in your semi-dedicated server account. If you’re in need of more, you can increase the system memory allowance. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The exact same Upgrades section will allow you to enable more instances as well, in case you would like to use the Varnish caching platform with more websites. The two upgrades can be added separately – you can cache the content of one busy Internet site or use several websites with the default memory allocation. You can get the most out of the Varnish caching platform if you’ve got a dedicated IP address and you can get one with your semi-dedicated package as well. Hepsia will give you full control over the caching platform and, with no more than one click, you’ll be able to delete the cached files, to check a system log or to restart an instance.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

When you need the most powerful web hosting solution and you purchase any of the dedicated web hosting plans that we offer, you can use the Varnish data caching platform to boost the overall performance of your websites at no additional charge as long as the dedicated machine is ordered with our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its simple-to-work-with GUI will permit you to monitor system processes, to delete the cached content or to reboot any instance with one single mouse click. The minimum amount of system memory that the platform can use to cache website content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for an enormous number of busy websites, so your server will be able to cope with a massive load while your site visitors are having a smooth browsing experience. Since your dedicated machine will come with several different dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to use Varnish’s maximum capacity.