Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes called an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web app accelerator that can improve the loading speed of a website 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. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the server and the web page will load significantly faster, as the Varnish caching platform can serve information many times faster than any web server software. The end result will be a significantly faster loading page, which leads to an immensely improved visitor experience. In case any of the cached pages is updated on the actual site, the information that Varnish stores in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ too, so the website visitors won’t end up seeing old information.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
If you host your Internet sites under a shared hosting account with us, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with a couple of clicks of the mouse from your Control Panel. The data caching platform is available as an optional upgrade with all our web hosting plans and you can select the number of the websites that will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of system memory and the number of instances and they’re not tied directly to each other, so you can choose whether you want lots of memory for a single large-scale site or less memory for several smaller ones. You can take advantage of the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can swiftly start/restart/shut down an instance, delete the cached contents independently for each website that employs Varnish or see a comprehensive log file.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
All Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that are ordered with the tailor-made Hepsia web hosting Control Panel feature Varnish, which is among the pre-installed software platforms that you’ll get with the dedicated server. The Varnish platform can be enabled and administered with no effort via the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with GUI and, with no more than one click of the mouse, you can view a detailed log, add or reboot an instance, clear the cached content for any website and much more. Soon after you activate Varnish for a particular domain or subdomain, it will start caching the webpages accessed by your visitors and as soon as it has cached enough web content, you’ll witness a tremendously better website performance and a decreased load on the dedicated machine. With Varnish-dedicated virtual memory starting at three gigabytes, you’ll be able to use the software platform for load balancing purposes even if you run an enormous number of websites on your server.