Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of faster response times. It is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy too and it interacts between a web server and a browser. When a website visitor accesses a certain web page, the content is requested by the web browser, and then the server handles this request and delivers the needed info. If Varnish is enabled for a particular site, it will cache the pages on the first visit and if the user visits a cached page for a second time, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the server. The increased load speed is a result of the significantly faster response speed that Varnish offers as compared to any web server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the users will continue being served the same content again and again, since any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish stores in its memory.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
If you host your websites in a shared hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse via your hosting Control Panel. The platform comes as an optional upgrade with all our shared web hosting packages and you can select how many websites will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they aren’t directly linked to each other, so you can decide whether you want a lot of memory for a single large website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can unleash the full potential of the Varnish platform if the websites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/stop an instance, clear the cached files independently for each website that uses the Varnish platform or check an in-depth log file.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Varnish caching platform is an essential part of the standard set of services that you’ll get if you decide to host your Internet sites under a semi-dedicated server account. You can configure it for any of your websites through our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The default amount of memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache content is 64 megabytes, but if you decide that you need more, you can upgrade this memory from the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. You can also upgrade the Varnish instances, i.e. the number of the websites that can use this caching platform at the same time. As these two things are not bound to each other, you can use several instances with the default memory or you can add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and use all of it for a single Internet site. The Varnish caching platform performs best if you get a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that utilize its power. Hepsia will give you a simple way of restarting any instance. In addition, you will be able to delete the cached contents with only one single click of the mouse.
Varnish in VPS Web Hosting
The Varnish data caching platform is included by default with all VPS web hosting that we’re offering as long as the Virtual Private Server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can optimize the overall performance of your sites with just a few clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the plan, the more system memory Varnish will have at its disposal, but even with a less powerful package, the caching platform will be able to utilize several hundred megabytes, so even if you own several websites, you’ll notice a serious reduction in the overall server load and a substantially better page loading speed. The Varnish platform will need to work for a while as the visitors navigate the website and as soon as the website content has been cached, you will see the results. One of the advantages of using Varnish is that a lower-end and less expensive plan will accomplish the very same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your websites work better, but you’ll also save a certain amount of cash.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting
If you want the most powerful web hosting solution and you obtain one of the dedicated hosting services offered by us, you will be able to use the Varnish content caching platform to enhance the overall performance of your sites at no additional charge on the condition that the server is ordered with our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its intuitive interface will permit you to monitor system processes, to clear the cache or to restart any instance with one click. The smallest amount of memory that the caching platform can use to cache website content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for an enormous selection of large sites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with a colossal load while your Internet site visitors are enjoying a seamless browsing experience. Since your dedicated machine will come with a number of dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to use Varnish’s full capacity.