Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches content for the sake of quicker response times. It’s sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and a browser. When a visitor opens a specific webpage, its content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the server processes this browser request and delivers the needed information. If Varnish is activated for a specific site, it will cache its pages on the first visit and if the user opens a cached page again, the information will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the server. The boosted speed is an end result of the substantially faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any web server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the users will continue seeing the exact same content again and again, because any change on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its memory.
Varnish in Web Hosting
You can unlock Varnish’s potential and accelerate your websites regardless of the web hosting plan that you’ve chosen and you can activate and configure the content caching platform with a couple of mouse clicks using the simple-to-work-with GUI offered by our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two different 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 linked to the number of instances, so you can add more instances with less memory and vice versa. In case you’ve got lots of content on a particular website and you attract many visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the sites that will use Varnish. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with easy one-click buttons for cancelling or rebooting any instance, for erasing the cache associated with each website and for viewing elaborate logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting come with Varnish by default, so you can make full use of the web accelerator tool and increase the loading speed of any website that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 MB of memory exclusively for Varnish at no additional charge and you’ll be able to enable an instance with no more than a few clicks of the mouse via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated plans. If you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal straight away. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide whether a lot of content will be cached for a single website or whether the available memory will be used by different sites. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to restart or to shut down any instance, to view the system log file associated with it or to delete the cached data using single-click buttons. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the websites that will use it.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
We offer Varnish with all Hepsia-equipped Linux VPS hosting, so in case you order a server with this hosting Control Panel, you will be able to take advantage of the content caching platform at no additional charge. The Varnish platform can use different amounts of memory for caching purposes depending on the specific Virtual Private Server package that you have picked during the VPS order process, but nevertheless, this amount will not be less than several hundred MB. This is more than enough to optimize the work of a handful of traffic-intensive sites, so the better website browsing speeds and the decreased load on the virtual machine will be perceivable. The effect may not be detectable straight away, as the Varnish platform will need a certain amount of time to cache the content that people request, but soon after you activate it, you will feel its full capacity. This platform will allow you to use a less powerful server and to pay less cash to get the very same performance you’d get with a higher-end machine without Varnish.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
When you need a more powerful hosting solution and you get any of the Linux dedicated web hosting offered by us, you will be able to use the Varnish caching platform to optimize the work of your sites at no extra cost on the condition that the dedicated machine is ordered with our avant-garde Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its simple-to-navigate interface will permit you to monitor platform processes, to clear the cached contents or to restart any instance with one single click of the mouse. The smallest amount of memory that the caching platform can use to cache site content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for an enormous collection of resource-consuming sites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with an enormous system load while your Internet site visitors are having a smooth browsing experience. As your dedicated server will come with several dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to use Varnish’s maximum potential.