Varnish is a website accelerator platform, which caches content for the sake of quicker access. It is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and its users. When a site visitor loads a given webpage, its content is requested by the web browser, and then the web server processes this browser request and delivers the necessary info. If Varnish is enabled for a certain site, it will cache its pages on the very first visit and in case the user accesses a cached page for a second time, the information will be delivered by the accelerator platform and not by the server. The increased load speed is an end result of the significantly faster response speed that the Varnish platform offers compared to any web server software. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that the visitors will keep being served the very same content again and again, since any change on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform saves in its system memory.

Varnish in Cloud Website Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with all our Linux cloud website hosting packages. You can add it to your web hosting account via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared packages and you will get a very simple-to-work-with graphical interface, which will give you complete control over the data caching platform. Using one-click quick-access buttons, you can restart or shut down any of the instances, i.e. Varnish will no longer be enabled for a given site. You can also see a comprehensive log file or delete the cache associated with any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting package, you’ll be able to select the total amount of system memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and how many sites will use Varnish. You can always order more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for maximum performance, you can set a dedicated IP for the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have a lot of happy website visitors.