Varnish is a data caching platform, which is occasionally referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web app accelerator tool that can increase the speed of a website by up to 1000%, based on its content. Whenever 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 processed by the web server and the page will load significantly faster, as Varnish can serve data many times faster than any server software. The result is a considerably faster loading site, which means a greatly improved browsing experience. If any of the cached webpages is updated on the live Internet site, the data that Varnish caches in its system memory is updated too, so the users won’t see old data.

Varnish in Cloud Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with all our cloud hosting plans. You can add it to your hosting account via the Hepsia Control Panel, which is available with all shared hosting packages and you’ll get a very easy-to-work-with interface, which will grant you complete control over the data caching platform. Using 1-click quick-access controls, you can reboot or disable any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer be enabled for a given website. You can also check a comprehensive log file or clear the cache associated with any of the Internet sites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting plan, you will be able to choose the total amount of memory that will be at your disposal for data caching purposes and how many sites will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for optimal performance, you can get a dedicated IP for the sites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to get the most out of your Internet sites and to have a lot of happy website users.