Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches information for quicker access. It’s sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy too and it works between a web server and a browser. When a visitor accesses a specific webpage, the content is requested by the web browser, and then the server processes this browser request and delivers the required info. If Varnish is activated for a given website, it will cache its pages on the first request and in case the visitor opens a cached page for a second time, the content will be delivered by the caching platform and not by the web server. The accelerated load speed is an end result of the significantly faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the website visitors will keep being served the very same content over and over again, since any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform stores in its system memory.

Varnish in Web Hosting

If you host your sites under a web hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse through your Control Panel. The platform comes as an upgrade with all our shared hosting plans and you can choose the number of the websites that will use it and the maximum amount of system memory that will be used for the cached data. The two upgradeable features in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they are not directly tied to each other, so you can decide whether you want plenty of memory for one single large site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can use the full potential of the Varnish caching platform in case the sites use a dedicated IP. With the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/restart/deactivate an instance, delete the cached contents individually for each website which employs Varnish or view a detailed system log.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

You can employ Varnish to improve the speed of any site that’s hosted on a dedicated server from our company when the Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed on the machine. Not only will you get the caching platform ready to be used at no additional fee, but you’ll also have total control over it via Hepsia’s simple-to-work-with GUI. It will take only one click of the mouse to start or deactivate an instance or to delete the cached data for any site that is using Varnish and if you are more knowledgeable, you can also check the platform’s system logs. Varnish comes with no less than 3 GB of memory for website content caching purposes, so even in case you run an immense number of Internet sites on your server and they all use the platform, the difference in their performance will be distinguishable. You will only need to wait for a while till Varnish caches whatever pages the website visitors access on their end. The Varnish platform works best if the websites use a dedicated IP, but owing to the fact that our dedicated servers come with 3 charge-free IP addresses, you’ll have all that you need.