Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches content for faster response times. It is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and an Internet browser. When a visitor opens a given web page, its content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this browser request and returns the requested info. If Varnish is enabled for a specific site, it will cache the pages at the very first visit and if the visitor accesses a cached page again, the information will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The increased load speed is an end result of the considerably faster response speed that Varnish offers as compared to any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the users will keep being served the very same content again and again, because any update on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that Varnish saves in its memory.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our Linux cloud hosting. You can add it to your web hosting account via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is available with all shared web hosting packages and you will get a quite simple-to-work-with graphical interface, which will grant you full control over the caching system. Using 1-click fast-access controls, you can reboot or disable any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be enabled for a certain Internet site. You can also view a detailed system log file or clear the cache for any of the sites. When you add Varnish to your shared web hosting plan, you’ll be able to select the maximum amount of memory that will be available to you for caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for best performance, you can get a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to get the most out of your sites and to have many satisfied site users.

Varnish in Dedicated Web Hosting

All Linux dedicated web hosting which are ordered with the custom Hepsia web hosting Control Panel come with Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you will get with the server. The Varnish data caching platform can be configured and managed with no effort via the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-navigate graphical interface and, with no more than one single click of the mouse, you can browse an exhaustive system log, create or restart an instance, clear the cache associated with any Internet site and much, much more. Shortly after you activate Varnish for a certain domain or subdomain, it will start caching the web pages requested by your website visitors and as soon as it has cached enough content, you will observe a tremendously better website performance and a reduced load on the server. With Varnish-dedicated system memory starting at 3 gigabytes, you will be able to use the platform for load distribution purposes even if you host lots of sites on the dedicated machine.