Varnish is a web application accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of quicker response times. It’s occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and an Internet browser. When a site visitor accesses a particular page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and sends back the necessary info. If Varnish is enabled for a site, it will cache its pages at the very first visit and if the visitor accesses a cached page once again, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the web server. The accelerated speed is an end result of the considerably faster response time that Varnish offers as compared with any server software. Of course, this does not mean that the users will continue being served the exact same content again and again, as any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform caches in its memory.
Varnish in Web Hosting
Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each of our Linux web hosting packages. You can add it to your account from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is offered with all shared web hosting plans and you will get a rather user-friendly GUI, which will give you full control over the caching platform. Using 1-click fast-access controls, you can reboot or shut down any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer work for a given website. You can also view an in-depth log file or erase the cache for any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting package, you’ll be able to choose the maximum amount of memory that will be at your disposal for data caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always get more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for optimum performance, you can assign a dedicated IP address to the sites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have a lot of gratified site users.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages come with Varnish by default, so you can take advantage of the web application accelerator and enhance the load speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 MB of system memory exclusively for Varnish at no extra fee and you can create an instance with no more than a couple of mouse clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated server packages. If you need more memory, the latter is offered in increments of 32 megabytes in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be available to you instantaneously. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can choose if plenty of content will be cached for a single website or whether the memory will be utilized by several websites. Hepsia will permit you to reboot or to cancel any instance, to check the system log file for it or to clear the cached data using single-click buttons. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the sites which will use it.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
When you need the most powerful web hosting solution and you buy one of the Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that we’re offering, you’ll be able to use the Varnish caching platform to enhance the performance of your websites at no additional charge on the condition that the server is ordered with our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its easy-to-work-with GUI will enable you to monitor platform processes, to delete the cached files or to restart any instance with a click. The minimal amount of system memory that the Varnish caching platform can employ to cache Internet site content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for an immense number of resource-intensive sites, so your server will be able to handle a huge system load while your website visitors are having a smooth browsing experience. Since your dedicated machine will come with several different dedicated IPs, you will be able to make use of Varnish’s full potential.