Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches data for faster access. It’s sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and a web browser. When a website visitor opens a particular page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this request and delivers the needed information. If Varnish is enabled for a certain site, it will cache the pages at the very first request and in case the visitor visits a cached page once more, the data will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the web server. The improved loading speed is a result of the considerably faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the users will continue seeing the exact same content over and over again, as any change on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish caches in its memory.
Varnish in Website Hosting
You can take advantage of Varnish’s full potential and enhance the speed of your websites irrespective of the website hosting plan that you have chosen and you can activate and configure the platform with a couple of mouse clicks from the user-friendly interface offered by our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the procedure, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many Internet sites will employ Varnish, in other words – the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 MB and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can add more instances with less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got a lot of content on a particular website and you win a lot of site visitors, more system memory will give you better results. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the Varnish caching platform. Hepsia will offer you easy one-click controls for switching off or rebooting any instance, for erasing the cache for each Internet site and for seeing in-depth logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Varnish is a feature, which is offered as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting offered by our company and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It is available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The data caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can use it with any Internet site that you host in the account. In case you are in need of more, you can increase the memory allowance. The memory itself is available in increments of 32 MB through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The same section will allow you to enable more instances too, if you want to use Varnish with multiple sites. The two upgrades can be ordered separately – you can cache the content of a single traffic-heavy site or run several Internet sites with the default memory allocation. You can take full advantage of Varnish if you use a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server plan as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you total control over the platform and, with no more than one click, you’ll be able to delete the cached contents, to check a log file or to reboot an instance.
Varnish in VPS Web Hosting
You can use the load balancing potential of Varnish with any of our VPS web hosting packages when you pick Hepsia as your web hosting Control Panel. The platform is available by default and the memory that it will be able to use to cache your website content is dependent on the given Virtual Private Server package that you have chosen, but even with the less powerful packages, you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes of memory at your disposal only for caching purposes. This amount is sufficient enough to boost the performance of multiple Internet sites. It’ll take some time for you to detect the effects, since Varnish caches the content that visitors browse, but shortly after that you will notice the significantly reduced load on the VPS server and the increased site load speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to make use of a lower-end VPS package for Internet sites which would normally require a more costly web hosting solution.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers Hosting
If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll get the Varnish content caching platform at no extra charge and you’ll have full control over it through an incredibly simple-to-navigate graphical interface – you’ll be able to start, to stop or to reboot an instance, to browse an elaborate log, to delete the cached data for any website and much more. Varnish will have several gigabytes of memory at its disposal, so even if you have traffic-hungry websites with lots of visitors, you’ll notice the tremendously better site load speeds and the decreased load on the server. This will become a fact soon after you start using Varnish, since it will need some time to cache the content that people open. You can make the most of the platform’s capabilities if the Internet sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but since your server includes a few IP addresses by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the server itself.