Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches information for faster access. It’s occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and a browser. When a website visitor loads a given page, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the server processes this browser request and returns the needed information. If Varnish is activated for a certain website, it will cache the pages at the very first request and in case the user accesses a cached page once again, the information will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the web 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. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the users will keep being served the same content over and over again, because any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish keeps in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

You can unleash Varnish’s potential and boost your websites’ speed regardless of the shared web hosting package that you’ve selected and you can enable and set up the data caching platform with a couple of mouse clicks using the simple-to-use GUI offered by our next-generation Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you will be able to select two different things – how many sites will use Varnish, i.e. the number of instances, and how much data will be cached, i.e. the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can order more instances with less memory and vice versa. In case you’ve got a lot of content on a certain Internet site and you attract numerous site visitors, more memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will offer you simple 1-click controls for shutting down or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with each Internet site and for viewing detailed system logs.

Varnish in Dedicated Hosting

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll get the Varnish data caching platform at no additional fee and you will have total control over it through an exceptionally time and effort saving GUI – you will be able to start, to discontinue or to reboot an instance, to view a detailed system log, to delete the cached content associated with any site and much, much more. The Varnish caching platform will have several gigabytes of system memory at its disposal, so even if you’ve got resource-demanding websites with a huge number of visitors, you’ll notice the significantly faster site load times and the less load on your server. This will happen soon after you start using Varnish, since it will need a certain amount of time to cache the site content that visitors open. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capabilities in case the Internet sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP address, but since your server includes a couple of IPs by default, you will not have to pay anything on top of your monthly fee for the machine itself.