Varnish is a web accelerator platform, which caches information for the sake of faster access. It’s occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and a browser. When a visitor opens a specific page, the content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this request and returns the required information. If Varnish is activated for a certain site, it will cache its pages at the first request and if the visitor accesses a cached page again, the content will be delivered by the caching platform instead of the web server. The accelerated load speed is an end result of the substantially faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any web server software. At the same time, this does not mean that the visitors will keep being served the exact same content over and over again, because any change on any of the pages is reflected in the content that Varnish keeps in its memory.
Varnish in Website Hosting
If you host your sites in a website hosting account with our company, you’ll be able to activate Varnish with several clicks of the mouse through your Control Panel. The platform is offered as an optional upgrade with all our hosting plans and you can select the number of the sites that will use it and the total amount of system memory that will be used for the cached content. The two upgradeable features in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel are the number of instances and the amount of memory and they are not linked directly to each other, so you can decide whether you need a lot of memory for a single large website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can use the full potential of the Varnish platform in case the websites use a dedicated IP. Using the hosting Control Panel, you can effortlessly start/reboot/disable an instance, clear the cached contents individually for each website which employs Varnish or see an exhaustive log file.
Varnish in Dedicated Hosting
If you want a more powerful website hosting solution and you acquire any of the Linux dedicated hosting that we’re offering, you’ll be able to use the Varnish content caching platform to optimize the performance of your sites at no additional charge as long as the dedicated machine is ordered with our cutting-edge Hepsia Control Panel. Its simple-to-use interface will permit you to keep track of system processes, to delete the cached content or to restart any instance with a click. The minimum amount of system memory that the Varnish platform can use to cache content is three gigabytes, which is quite enough for a huge number of resource-demanding websites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with an immense system load while your site visitors are having a seamless web browsing experience. As your dedicated server will include several different dedicated IP addresses, you’ll be able to use Varnish’s full capacity.