Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches information for faster response times. It’s occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it interacts between a web server and an Internet browser. When a visitor opens a given page, the content is requested by the Internet browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and sends back the required information. If Varnish is activated for a given site, it will cache its pages at the very first request and in case the visitor accesses a cached page once again, the information will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the web server. The improved loading speed is a result of the substantially faster response time that Varnish offers as compared to any server software. Of course, this does not mean that the website visitors will keep seeing the very same content again and again, as any update on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish saves in its memory.

Varnish in Web Hosting

You can make use of Varnish’s potential and accelerate your sites’ load speed regardless of the web hosting package that you’ve selected and you can activate and configure the content caching platform with a couple of mouse clicks using the user-friendly interface offered by our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll be able to choose two different things – how many sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much content will be cached, i.e. the amount of memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 MB and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and the other way around. In case you have plenty of content on a specific website and you gain numerous visitors, more system memory will give you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the Varnish platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will provide you with simple one-click buttons for turning off or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache for each website and for checking in-depth system logs.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

If you need a more powerful website hosting solution and you acquire any of the dedicated web hosting plans that we are offering, you can use the Varnish platform to enhance the overall performance of your websites at no additional fee on the condition that the dedicated server is ordered with our innovative Hepsia Control Panel. Its user-friendly GUI will enable you to keep an eye on system processes, to clear the cached files or to restart any instance with one single mouse click. The minimum amount of system memory that the Varnish platform can employ to cache site content is 3 gigabytes, which is quite enough for a huge selection of resource-heavy sites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with an immense load while your visitors are enjoying a seamless browsing experience. As your server will include several dedicated IP addresses, you’ll be able to use Varnish’s maximum potential.