Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web accelerator that can accelerate the speed of a site by up to one thousand percent, depending on its content. Whenever a visitor accesses any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor opens it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will open substantially faster, since the Varnish caching platform can deliver information many times faster than any server software. The end result will be a much faster loading site, which means an immensely improved visitor experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the live website, the info that Varnish saves in its system memory is updated as well, so the website visitors will never see outdated content.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

You can use Varnish’s full potential and boost the load speed of your websites irrespective of the cloud website hosting plan that you have picked and you can add and configure the data caching platform with a few clicks from the easy-to-work-with GUI offered by our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. During the process, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many Internet sites will use the Varnish caching platform, in other words – the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and the other way around. In case you have lots of content on a particular Internet site and you draw numerous website visitors, more memory will give you a better result. You may also consider employing a dedicated IP for the sites that will use Varnish. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you easy one-click buttons for deleting or restarting any instance, for clearing the cache associated with each site and for checking exhaustive system logs.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

In case you order a dedicated server with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll acquire the Varnish platform at no additional fee and you will exert full control over it via a really user-friendly GUI – you’ll be able to start, to remove or to reboot an instance, to see a comprehensive log, to delete the cached content associated with any Internet site and much more. Varnish will have several GB of memory at its disposal, so even if you own traffic-intensive Internet sites with many visitors, you’ll notice the significantly faster web page loading speeds and the reduced load on the server. This will become a fact soon after you begin using Varnish, since it will need a certain amount of time to cache the site content that people access. You can take full advantage of the platform’s capacity if the Internet sites that are using it also use a dedicated IP, but considering the fact that your server comes with a few IPs by default, you won’t need to pay anything on top of your monthly fee for the server itself.