Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web app accelerator that can improve the speed of a website by up to 1000%, depending on its content. Each time a visitor opens any page on a site 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 handled by the server and the web page will open tremendously faster, as Varnish can deliver information many times faster than any web server software. The end result will be a much faster loading website, which leads to an immensely improved browsing experience. If any of the cached pages is updated on the actual Internet site, the content that Varnish stores in its memory is updated as well, so the site visitors won’t see old data.
Varnish in Hosting
Our company offers Varnish as an optional upgrade with each and every Linux hosting service and if you would like to use it, you can add it to your web hosting account through the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two different things that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. The first one refers to the number of the websites that you would like to employ Varnish for and the second one, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, refers to the total amount of content that the platform can cache at any given moment. Hepsia’s intuitive GUI will enable you to remove or to reboot any instance, to view detailed logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just one click. For optimal results, you can use a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your website will open much faster, meaning more satisfied users and prospective clients.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
All our Linux semi-dedicated servers come with Varnish by default, so you can use the website accelerator tool and increase the speed of any site that you host on our platform. You will get 64 megabytes of memory particularly for Varnish at no extra charge and you can add an instance with no more than a couple of clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated packages. In case you want more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal instantly. You can also add more instances as a separate upgrade, so you can choose if a lot of data will be cached for a single site or whether the memory will be used by different websites. Hepsia will enable you to reboot or to terminate any instance, to check the system log for it or to delete the cached content using one-click buttons. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can assign a dedicated IP to the websites which will use it.
Varnish in VPS Servers
The Varnish platform is included by default with each of the Linux VPS web hosting service that we are offering given that the Virtual Private Server is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you can enhance the overall performance of your sites with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. The more powerful the package, the more system memory will be available to Varnish, but even with a lower-end package, the platform will be able to utilize several hundred MB, so even if you’ve got several websites, you will notice a substantial decrease in the overall server load and a substantially faster page loading speed. The platform will have to work for a while while the users navigate the website and once the website content has been cached, you will distinguish the result. One of the pluses of using Varnish is that a lower-end and less high-priced VPS plan will do the same job as a more pricey one without the platform, so not only will your Internet sites work substantially better, but you’ll also spare some cash.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
If you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll obtain the Varnish caching platform at no extra fee and you will have total control over it via a truly time and effort saving interface – you will be able to start, to cancel or to restart an instance, to view an elaborate log, to clear the cached data for any Internet site and much more. The Varnish platform will have several gigabytes of memory at its disposal, so even if you own traffic-hungry websites with numerous visitors, you’ll notice the substantially better site load speeds and the lowered server load. This will happen shortly after you begin using Varnish, since it will need a certain amount of time to cache the web pages that people browse. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capabilities in case the websites that are using it use also a dedicated IP, but since your dedicated server comes with a couple of IP addresses by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of the monthly charge for the machine itself.