Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator that can increase the load speed of a site by up to 1000 percent, based on the content itself. Anytime a visitor opens any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor accesses it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will load tremendously faster, since Varnish can deliver data many times faster than any web server software. The end result is a substantially faster loading website, which means a much-improved visitor experience. If any of the cached webpages is updated on the live website, the info that Varnish keeps in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the visitors will not see outdated content.
Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting
Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with each cloud website hosting and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your shared website hosting account via the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two separate features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the memory. The first one depends on the number of the websites that you want to employ Varnish for and the second one, which comes in increments of 32 MB, pertains to the maximum amount of data that the data caching platform can store at any given moment. Hepsia’s time and effort saving interface will enable you to cancel or to restart any instance, to view comprehensive system logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For optimal results, you can use a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your website will open considerably faster, which means more happy visitors and potential clients.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
Varnish is a feature, which comes as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer and you can use it for load distribution purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The Varnish data caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can employ it with any site that you host in your account. If you need more, you can increase the memory allocation. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB through the Control Panel’s Upgrades section. The exact same Upgrades section will permit you to add more instances too, if you wish to use the Varnish platform with multiple websites. The two upgrades can be ordered separately – you can cache the content of one single large-scale site or run several different Internet sites with the default memory quota. You can take full advantage of the Varnish caching platform in case you’ve got a dedicated IP address and you can order one with your semi-dedicated package as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will grant you complete control over the caching platform and, with no more than one single mouse click, you’ll be able to clear the cached data, to view a system log file or to restart an instance.
Varnish in VPS Servers
You can take full advantage of the load balancing potential of Varnish with each of our VPS servers in case you pick Hepsia as your Control Panel. The platform is available by default and the amount of system memory that it will be able to use to cache your website content is dependent upon the specific VPS plan that you have chosen, but even with the less powerful packages, you’ll have at least several hundred MB of memory at your disposal solely for caching purposes. This amount is enough to optimize the work of multiple sites. It will take some time for you to observe the results, since Varnish caches the content that visitors request, but soon after that you will notice the substantially lowered load on the Virtual Private Server and the increased Internet site load speed. The Varnish platform will allow you to use a less powerful plan for websites which would normally need a more expensive hosting service.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
You can use Varnish in order to increase the speed of any website that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company if the Hepsia Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the data caching platform ready to be used at no extra cost, but you’ll also exert complete control over it via the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-use GUI. It will take just one single click to start or delete an instance or to clear the cached data for any website that’s using Varnish and in case you’re more advanced, you can also view the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with at least three gigabytes of virtual memory for data caching purposes, so even if you run multiple websites on your machine and they all use the platform, the improvement in their overall performance will be detectable. You will simply have to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever pages the site visitors browse on their end. The Varnish platform performs best if the sites use a dedicated IP address, but due to the fact that our dedicated servers come with 3 free-of-cost IP addresses, you’ll have everything you need.