Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches info for quicker response times. It’s occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and its users. When a visitor loads a specific web page, the content is requested by the web browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and returns the required information. If Varnish is activated for a given website, it will cache its pages on the first request and in case the user visits a cached page once again, the data will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the server. The accelerated speed is an end result of the significantly faster response time that the Varnish platform offers compared with any server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the visitors will continue seeing the very same content again and again, as any change on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish saves in its memory.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
In case you host your websites under a shared hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks from your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our shared hosting packages and you can select how many sites will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can decide whether you need plenty of memory for one single large-sized website or less memory for several smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP address. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/terminate an instance, clear the cached content individually for each website that employs the Varnish platform or view an elaborate log.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
The semi-dedicated hosting service offered by our company will allow you to use Varnish once your brand-new semi-dedicated account is active, since the caching platform comes by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can use this load balancing software once your site has been launched online. If you need more memory, you can get 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine in an instant. You can also increase the number of the websites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of memory that you use, which means that you’ll enjoy more flexibility. The platform will considerably lower the server load that your websites generate, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You’ll be able to manage the Varnish caching platform without effort via your Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access controls. You’ll be able to start/disable any of the instances that you’ve got, to clear the cached data for any of your websites or to view system log files.
Varnish in VPS Servers
We provide Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed VPS servers, so if you order a server with this web hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to take advantage of the caching platform at no extra charge. Varnish can use different amounts of memory for content caching purposes based on the specific sever setup that you have chosen during the VPS order process, but at any rate, this amount won’t be less than several hundred MB. This is more than enough to boost the overall performance of several different resource-demanding Internet sites, so the better page loading speeds and the reduced load on the machine will be noticeable. The effect may not be distinguishable immediately, as Varnish will need some time to cache the content that people request, but shortly after you enable it, you’ll observe its full potential. This caching platform will permit you to use a less powerful Virtual Private Server and to pay less cash to get the same performance you’d get with a higher-end machine without Varnish.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
You can use Varnish to boost the load speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server with our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is pre-installed on the machine. Not only will you get the platform ready to be used at no additional cost, but you’ll also have full control over it via Hepsia’s simple-to-navigate graphical interface. It’ll take just one single click to start or deactivate an instance or to clear the cached content for any website that’s using Varnish and if you are more tech-savvy, you can also check the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than three gigabytes of system memory for data caching purposes, so even in case you host numerous sites on your dedicated machine and they all use the platform, the difference in their overall performance will be perceivable. You’ll just need to wait for a little while until Varnish caches whatever content the visitors browse on their end. The platform performs best when the sites use a dedicated IP, but due to the fact that our servers include 3 cost-free IPs, you will have everything you need.