Varnish is a web app accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity in recent years, because it can increase the loading speed of any site, sometimes even by one hundred percent, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to decrease the overall load on the server and to enhance the access speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a particular site, the web browser request is handled by the web server and the requested info is sent as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is enabled, it caches the pages that the website visitor browses and in case any of them is accessed once again, it is fetched by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator handles the web requests significantly quicker than any web server, which leads to much faster browsing speeds for the website visitors. In case any data is edited meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody attempts to access them.

Varnish in Website Hosting

Varnish comes as an optional upgrade with all our website hosting. You can add it to your account from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared hosting plans and you’ll get a rather user-friendly graphical interface, which will grant you full control over the data caching platform. Using 1-click quick-access controls, you can reboot or remove any of the instances, in other words – Varnish will no longer work for a particular website. You can also view an elaborate log file or clear the cache for any of the websites. When you add Varnish to your shared hosting package, you will be able to choose the total amount of memory that will be available to you for data caching purposes and how many websites will use Varnish. You can always add more memory in increments of 32 megabytes and, for top performance, you can allocate a dedicated IP to the websites that will use Varnish. This will allow you to get the most out of your Internet sites and to have plenty of gratified visitors.