Varnish is a website accelerator tool, which has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, as it can increase the loading speed of any Internet site, at times even by 100%, depending on the content itself. This tool is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy too and is used to lower the overall server load and to boost the browsing speed for the site visitors. Every time a visitor accesses a page on a given site, the browser request is handled by the web server and the requested information is sent as a reply. If Varnish is activated, it caches the pages that the site visitor opens and in case any of them is opened again, it is delivered by Varnish and not by the server directly. The improvement in the performance comes from the fact that the accelerator processes the browser requests tremendously faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. If any content is edited in the meantime, the cached webpages will also be ‘refreshed’ the next time somebody attempts to access them.

Varnish in Shared Hosting

Our company offers Varnish as an optional upgrade with each and every shared hosting and if you wish to use it, you can add it to your web hosting account via the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two separate features that can be upgraded – the instances and the memory. The first one depends on the number of the sites that you’d like to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, pertains to the maximum amount of data that the data caching platform can store at any particular time. The Hepsia Control Panel’s intuitive interface will allow you to disable or to reboot any instance, to view exhaustive system logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For maximum results, you can use a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your site will open tremendously faster, meaning more pleased users and potential customers.