Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches info for the sake of faster response times. It’s sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and a browser. When a visitor loads a certain web page, its content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and returns the needed info. If Varnish is enabled for a certain website, it will cache the pages at the first request and if the visitor visits a cached page once again, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the server. The accelerated loading speed is an end result of the considerably faster response speed that Varnish offers as compared to any web server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the website visitors will continue being served the very same content again and again, as any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish keeps in its system memory.
Varnish in Cloud Web Hosting
Our company offers Varnish as an optional upgrade with each cloud web hosting and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your shared hosting account through the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two different features that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one pertains to the number of the sites that you want to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which comes in increments of 32 MB, displays the maximum amount of data that the platform can cache at any particular time. Hepsia’s easy-to-use GUI will permit you to disable or to reboot any instance, to view in-depth system logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just click of the mouse. For best results, you can employ a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your site will open tremendously faster, meaning more pleased website visitors and prospective clients.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Linux semi-dedicated packages offered by us will permit you to employ Varnish once your brand new semi-dedicated account has been set up, since the caching platform is offered by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is enabled, so you can make use of this workload balancing software once your website has been published online. If you’re in need of more system memory, you can order 32 MB at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be assigned to your semi-dedicated machine in an instant. You can also increase the number of the websites that employ Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly bound to the amount of memory that you use, which goes to say that you’ll enjoy more freedom. The platform will greatly reduce the load that your sites generate, so your visitors can enjoy fast-loading pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish caching platform with ease from the Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access buttons. You will be able to start/deactivate any of the instances that you’ve got, to clear the cached data for any of your websites or to see system logs.
Varnish in VPS
You can take full advantage of the workload balancing potential of Varnish with each of our VPS if you pick Hepsia as your hosting Control Panel. The Varnish platform comes by default and the memory that it will be able to utilize to cache your site content is dependent on the particular VPS package that you have chosen, but even with the less powerful packages, you will have no less than several hundred MB of system memory at your disposal exclusively for data caching purposes. This amount is sufficient to improve the work of multiple sites. It will take a little time for you to distinguish the results, as Varnish caches the content that visitors browse, but soon thereafter you’ll notice the significantly reduced load on the VPS and the accelerated site loading speed. The Varnish caching platform will allow you to use a lower-end VPS package for sites that would normally need a more pricey hosting solution.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll obtain the Varnish content caching platform at no additional charge and you’ll exert complete control over it through a very easy-to-navigate GUI – you will be able to start, to deactivate or to reboot an instance, to browse an in-depth system log, to clear the cached content associated with any Internet site and much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of virtual memory at its disposal, so even if you manage regularly visited sites with a huge number of visitors, you will notice the considerably better website load times and the reduced load on the dedicated server. This will happen soon after you start using Varnish, since it will need some time to cache the pages that visitors access. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capability if the websites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but since your server includes a couple of IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.