Varnish is a web app accelerator platform, which caches info for the sake of faster response times. It is occasionally referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy as well and it works between a web server and a browser. When a visitor opens a given webpage, its content is requested by the browser, and then the web server handles this request and returns the necessary information. If Varnish is activated for a particular site, it will cache the pages at the first request and in case the visitor visits a cached page for a second time, the info will be delivered by the accelerator platform instead of the server. The improved loading speed is a result of the significantly faster response time that the Varnish platform offers as compared to any web server software. Of course, this does not mean that the site visitors will keep being served the same content over and over again, because any modification on any of the web pages is reflected in the content that the Varnish platform caches in its system memory.

Varnish in Shared Web Hosting

We offer Varnish as an optional upgrade with each shared web hosting plan and if you want to use it, you can add it to your hosting account through the Upgrades section in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There are two different things that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one pertains to the number of the sites that you’d like to employ Varnish for and the second one, which is offered in increments of 32 megabytes, pertains to the total amount of data that the data caching platform can cache at any particular moment. Hepsia’s user-friendly GUI will allow you to switch off or to restart any instance, to see elaborate system logs or to delete the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For optimum results, you can employ a dedicated IP for the sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your site will open significantly faster, which means more happy site visitors and prospective customers.