Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web accelerator that can improve the load speed of a website by up to one thousand percent, based on the content itself. Anytime a visitor accesses any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor opens it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will open significantly faster, as Varnish can deliver data many times faster than any server software. The end result will be a significantly faster loading site, which leads to an immensely improved website browsing experience. If any of the cached web pages is updated on the actual site, the data that Varnish stores in its memory is updated too, so the users will not end up seeing out-of-date data.

Varnish in Web Hosting

Varnish is available as an optional upgrade with all our Linux web hosting packages. You can add it to your website hosting account via the Hepsia Control Panel, which is available with all shared hosting packages and you’ll get a very intuitive graphical interface, which will grant you full control over the content caching platform. Using one-click quick-access controls, you can restart or shut down any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer work for a particular website. You can also see an exhaustive system log file or erase the cache associated with any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your web hosting package, you will be able to choose the total amount of system memory that will be at your disposal for caching purposes and the number of the sites that will use Varnish. You can always get more memory in increments of 32 MB and, for maximum performance, you can get a dedicated IP address for the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to take full advantage of your Internet sites and to have many gratified site visitors.