Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for quicker response times. It is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and an Internet browser. When a visitor opens a certain webpage, its content is requested by the browser, and then the server handles this browser request and delivers the required data. If Varnish is enabled for a specific website, it will cache its pages on the very first visit and in case the user accesses a cached page again, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The improved load speed is a result of the substantially faster response time that Varnish offers compared with any server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the users will continue being served the exact same content again and again, as any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish saves in its system memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with all our Linux cloud hosting packages. You can add it to your account from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is offered with all shared hosting packages and you’ll get a truly simple-to-work-with GUI, which will grant you complete control over the content caching system. Using 1-click fast-access controls, you can reboot or cancel any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer work for a given Internet site. You can also view an in-depth system log file or erase the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your hosting plan, you will be able to choose the maximum amount of memory that will be at your disposal for content caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always get more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for optimum performance, you can allocate a dedicated IP address to the websites that will use Varnish. This will permit you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have plenty of pleased website users.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Linux semi-dedicated packages offered by our company will permit you to use Varnish as soon as your brand new semi-dedicated account has been activated, as the caching platform is available by default. 64 MB of system memory will be allocated to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can make use of this load balancing software as soon as your site has been published online. If you need more memory, you can order 32 megabytes at a time from the Upgrades section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated server momentarily. You can also increase the number of the Internet sites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not directly tied to the amount of system memory that you use, which goes to say that you will have more freedom. The Varnish platform will significantly lower the load on the semi-dedicated machine generated by your sites, so your site visitors can enjoy fast-loading web pages. You will be able to manage the Varnish caching platform without any effort through your Hepsia Control Panel using fast-access buttons. You’ll be able to start/discontinue any of the instances that you’ve got, to delete the cached data associated with any of your sites or to see system logs.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

All Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that are ordered with the in-house developed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is one of the pre-installed platforms that you’ll get with the server. The Varnish platform can be set up and administered with ease from Hepsia’s simple-to-navigate GUI and, with no more than one mouse click, you can view a comprehensive log, create or reboot an instance, delete the cached files for any site and much, much more. Soon after you activate Varnish for a specific domain or subdomain, it will start caching the pages requested by the site visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you’ll perceive a tremendously better site performance as well as a lowered load on your dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at three gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for workload distribution purposes even if you host lots of Internet sites on your dedicated machine.