Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, because it can increase the load speed of any Internet site, sometimes even by 100 percent, based on the content. This tool is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to lower the overall load on the server and to increase the access speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor loads a page on a certain website, the web browser request is taken care of by the web server and the requested content is returned as a reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor opens and if any of them is opened once again, it’s served by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests significantly quicker than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the users. In case any data is edited meanwhile, the cached pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody tries to access them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

You can unleash Varnish’s full potential and boost the load speed of your websites regardless of the website hosting package that you have chosen and you can enable and configure the data caching platform with several clicks through the simple-to-use GUI offered by our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel. During the procedure, you will be able to select two separate things – how many websites will use Varnish, in other words – the number of instances, and how much information will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory. The latter comes in increments of 32 megabytes and is not tied to the number of instances, so you can use more instances with less memory and the other way around. In case you have plenty of content on a particular Internet site and you win plenty of site visitors, more system memory will guarantee you a better result. You may also consider using a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the Varnish caching platform. The Hepsia Control Panel will offer you easy one-click buttons for cancelling or rebooting any instance, for deleting the cache associated with any website and for seeing in-depth system logs.