Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a website accelerator tool that can boost the speed of a site by up to one thousand percent, depending on its content. Each time 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 processed by the server and the web page will open substantially faster, as the Varnish caching platform can serve information many times faster than any server software. The result is a considerably faster loading site, which means a much-improved visitor experience. In case any of the cached webpages is updated on the live website, the data that Varnish keeps in its memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the site visitors will not see outdated data.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

In case you host your websites in a shared hosting account with us, you will be able to add Varnish with a few clicks through your hosting Control Panel. The platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our web hosting packages and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be available for the cached content. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they’re not linked directly to each other, so you can decide whether you want lots of memory for one large-sized website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can make use of the full potential of Varnish if the sites use a dedicated IP address. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can easily start/restart/deactivate an instance, delete the cached files independently for each site that employs Varnish or view an elaborate system log.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Varnish is a feature, which is included as standard with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting offered by our company and you can use it for load balancing purposes. It is available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish content caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached content storing purposes and you can use it with any Internet site that you host in your semi-dedicated server account. If you are in need of more, you can increase the memory allowance. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The same Upgrades section will enable you to enable more instances as well, in case you’d like to use the Varnish caching platform with more Internet sites. The two upgrades can be added separately – you can cache the content of one single traffic-heavy site or run several websites with the default memory allowance. You can get the most out of the Varnish platform in case you’ve got a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated package as well. Hepsia will grant you full control over the platform and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you’ll be able to delete the cached files, to see a system log file or to restart an instance.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

If you need the most powerful website hosting solution and you purchase one of the Linux dedicated hosting that we’re offering, you can use the Varnish data caching platform to boost the overall performance of your sites at no extra charge as long as the dedicated server is ordered with our next-generation Hepsia Control Panel. Its simple-to-navigate interface will allow you to keep an eye on system processes, to clear the cached content or to restart any instance with one single click. The minimal amount of system memory that the Varnish caching platform can use to cache website content is 3 GB, which is more than enough for a large collection of traffic-hungry websites, so your dedicated server will be able to deal with a gigantic system load while your website visitors are having a smooth web browsing experience. As your machine will include several dedicated IPs, you’ll be able to make use of Varnish’s full potential.