Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches info for the sake of quicker response times. It’s sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and a browser. When a site visitor loads a certain web page, the content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the server processes this browser request and returns the required content. If Varnish is enabled for a website, it will cache the pages on the first visit and in case the visitor opens a cached page once more, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the server. The increased load speed is an end result of the considerably faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers compared to any server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the users will continue seeing the exact same content over and over again, because any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform stores in its memory.
Varnish in Hosting
Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux hosting. You can add it to your web hosting account through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with all shared packages and you’ll get a pretty intuitive GUI, which will give you complete control over the caching platform. Using 1-click quick-access buttons, you can restart or terminate any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be activated for a certain Internet site. You can also check an elaborate log file or clear the cache associated with any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting package, you’ll be able to select the maximum amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for data caching purposes and how many sites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for maximum performance, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the websites that will use Varnish. This will enable you to take full advantage of your websites and to have a lot of pleased visitors.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages offered by our company will allow you to use Varnish once your brand new account has been activated, since the data caching platform is offered by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can use this workload balancing software once your website has been published online. If you are in need of more memory, you can add 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine right away. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of memory that you use, which means that you’ll have more flexibility. The platform will considerably decrease the load on the semi-dedicated machine generated by your websites, so your visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish without effort through your Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access controls. You will be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached data associated with any of your Internet sites or to view system log files.
Varnish in VPS Hosting
You can take full advantage of the load balancing capabilities of Varnish with each of our VPS hosting if you select Hepsia as your Control Panel. The content caching platform comes by default and the memory that it will be able to utilize to cache the content of your websites depends on the particular VPS plan that you’ve picked, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have no less than several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal exclusively for data caching purposes. This amount is enough to optimize the work of multiple websites. It’ll take some time for you to see the results, since Varnish caches the content that site visitors request, but shortly after that you’ll notice the considerably decreased load on your VPS server and the accelerated site loading speed. The Varnish platform will permit you to make use of a less powerful VPS plan for websites which would typically require a more costly web hosting solution.
Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting
All dedicated servers hosting packages which are ordered with the custom-built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is among the pre-installed platforms that you will get with the server. The Varnish caching platform can be configured and administered with no effort from Hepsia’s simple-to-navigate interface and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you can see an in-depth log, create or reboot an instance, delete the cached data associated with any site and much, much more. Shortly after you enable Varnish for a given domain or subdomain, it will begin caching the pages opened by your website visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you will witness a substantially better site performance plus a reduced load on the machine. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at three gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for load balancing purposes even if you host a large number of websites on the dedicated machine.