Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches data for the sake of faster response times. It’s occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and a browser. When a site visitor loads a certain page, its content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the web server processes this request and sends back the needed information. If Varnish is activated for a specific site, it will cache its pages at the very first visit and in case the user opens a cached page for a second time, the info will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the server. The improved load speed is a result of the substantially faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any web server software. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the users will keep being served the same content again and again, as any modification on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its memory.

Varnish in Web Hosting

In case you host your sites in a web hosting account with our company, you will be able to add Varnish with several clicks of the mouse from your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our hosting packages and you can choose how many sites will use it and the maximum storage space that will be used for the cached content. The two features that can be upgraded in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they aren’t linked directly to each other, so you can decide whether you need plenty of memory for a single large site or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can use the full potential of Varnish in case the sites use a dedicated IP. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/delete an instance, clear the cached files individually for each website which uses the Varnish platform or view a comprehensive log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated packages that we’re offering will allow you to employ Varnish once your brand new semi-dedicated server account is active, since the caching platform is available by default. 64 megabytes of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the moment your account is enabled, so you can use this load balancing software as soon as your site has been built. If you’re in need of more memory, you can get 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated server in an instant. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly linked to the amount of system memory that you use, which suggests that you’ll enjoy more flexibility. The Varnish caching platform will immensely lower the load on the server that your sites cause, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish platform without effort from the Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You will be able to start/terminate any of the instances that you have, to delete the cached files associated with any of your websites or to view system logs.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

All Linux dedicated servers hosting packages which are ordered with the custom-developed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated machine. The Varnish content caching platform can be enabled and administered without effort through the Hepsia Control Panel’s intuitive GUI and, with no more than one mouse click, you can see an exhaustive system log, create or restart an instance, delete the cached data for any website and much, much more. Shortly after you set up Varnish for a specific domain or sub-domain, it will begin caching the web pages accessed by the visitors and once it has cached enough web content, you will witness a considerably faster site performance as well as a reduced load on the dedicated server. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at 3 GB, you’ll be able to use the software platform for workload distribution purposes even if you run a lot of Internet sites on the machine.