Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator that can boost the load speed of a site by up to 1000%, depending on its content. Whenever a visitor opens any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server if the visitor opens it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will load substantially faster, since the Varnish platform can serve data many times faster than any web server software. The end result will be a substantially faster loading website, which means a much-improved visitor experience. When any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual Internet site, the data that Varnish saves in its memory is updated too, so the visitors will not end up seeing out-of-date info.

Varnish in Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with each hosting and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your account using the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two separate features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the sites that you’d like to employ Varnish for and the second one, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, shows the maximum amount of data that the data caching platform can store at any given moment. Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with graphical interface will permit you to cancel or to reboot any instance, to view exhaustive logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For maximum results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your site will load substantially faster, which means more pleased website users and potential clients.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting include Varnish by default, so you can take advantage of the web accelerator and increase the loading speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You will get 64 megabytes of memory particularly for Varnish at no additional cost and you can add an instance with no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated plans. If you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be at your disposal momentarily. You can also order more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can decide if lots of content will be cached for a single website or whether the memory will be used by several websites. The Hepsia Control Panel will enable you to restart or to shut down any instance, to check the system log file associated with it or to delete the cached content using 1-click buttons. To get the most out of Varnish, you can set a dedicated IP for the websites which will employ it.

Varnish in VPS

You can take advantage of Varnish with any of our virtual private server packages at no additional charge, since the content caching platform is pre-installed and is offered by default. The one and only requirement is that the server must be ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you’ll be able to set up Varnish for any of your Internet sites with only a few mouse clicks. Each package offers a different amount of memory for data caching purposes, but you’ll get at least several hundred megabytes, which is quite sufficient even for multiple traffic-intensive Internet sites. Shortly after you enable the Varnish platform, it’ll start caching the content that your visitors request, so you’ll notice the significantly faster web page loading speeds and the decreased load on your Virtual Private Server very soon. The platform will permit you to use a less high-priced virtual server, as you will not require that many resources to ensure the correct operation of your Internet sites even if you have resource-consuming websites with many visitors. Maximum results are accomplished if the sites that use the Varnish platform also use a dedicated IP.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

If you need a powerful web hosting solution and you buy one of the dedicated hosting services that we offer, you’ll be able to use the Varnish caching platform to improve the work of your Internet sites at no additional cost as long as the dedicated server is ordered with our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its user-friendly graphical interface will allow you to keep track of platform processes, to clear the cache or to reboot any instance with one single mouse click. The smallest amount of memory that the platform can use to cache site content is 3 GB, which is more than enough for a vast number of resource-consuming websites, so your server will be able to deal with a gigantic load while your visitors are enjoying a seamless browsing experience. As your machine will include a number of dedicated IPs, you’ll be able to use Varnish’s full potential.