Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally called an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web application accelerator that can improve the loading speed of a site by up to 1000 percent, depending on its content. Each time 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 handled by the web server and the page will load tremendously faster, as Varnish can serve data many times faster than any server software. The end result will be a significantly faster loading website, which means an immensely improved visitor experience. When any of the cached webpages is updated on the live Internet site, the info that Varnish keeps in its system memory is updated too, so the website visitors won’t end up seeing out-of-date info.

Varnish in Website Hosting

You can unleash Varnish’s potential and improve your sites’ speed irrespective of the website hosting plan that you’ve chosen and you can enable and set up the data caching platform with a couple of clicks of the mouse through the user-friendly graphical interface offered by our cutting-edge Hepsia Control Panel. During the procedure, you’ll be able to select two different things – how many sites will employ the Varnish caching platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, in other words – the amount of memory. The latter is offered in increments of 32 MB and is not bound to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and vice versa. If you’ve got plenty of content on a particular Internet site and you gain lots of website visitors, more system memory will give you better results. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the Internet sites that will use Varnish. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you easy one-click controls for cancelling or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache for each website and for seeing detailed logs.