Varnish

Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator that can increase the speed of a site by up to 1000%, depending on its content. Anytime a visitor opens any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server if the visitor loads it again. Thus, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will open tremendously faster, since the Varnish platform can deliver content many times faster than any web server software. The result is a much faster loading page, which means a greatly improved visitor experience. If any of the cached webpages is updated on the actual Internet site, the data that Varnish stores in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the website visitors will not see out-of-date information.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All our semi-dedicated hosting come with Varnish by default, so you can take full advantage of the web accelerator tool and accelerate the load speed of any site that you host on our semi-dedicated servers. You’ll get 64 MB of memory exclusively for the Varnish accelerator at no extra fee and you can activate an instance with no more than a few clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated plans. If you want more memory, the latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes through the Upgrades section of the Control Panel and it will be at your disposal instantaneously. You can also add more instances as an upgrade, so you can decide if plenty of content will be cached for a single site or if the memory will be used by multiple Internet sites. Hepsia will permit you to restart or to disable any instance, to check the system log associated with it or to delete the cached files using 1-click controls. To take full advantage of the Varnish accelerator, you can set a dedicated IP for the Internet sites which will use it.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will get the Varnish caching platform at no extra cost and you’ll have total control over it via a really simple-to-use interface – you’ll be able to start, to remove or to reboot an instance, to check an exhaustive log, to clear the cached content for any site and much more. Varnish will have several GB of memory at its disposal, so even if you have high-demand websites with numerous visitors, you’ll notice the considerably faster page load speeds and the reduced load on the server. This will become a fact shortly after you begin using the Varnish platform, since it will require some time to cache the site content that users access. You can get the most out of the platform’s capacity if the sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but since your server comes with a few IPs by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of your monthly charge for the machine itself.