Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a web app accelerator that can accelerate the load speed of a site by up to one thousand percent, based on its content. Each time a visitor accesses any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server if the visitor opens it again. Thus, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the web server and the page will open much faster, as the Varnish caching platform can serve information many times faster than any server software. The result will be a substantially faster loading site, which means an immensely improved website browsing experience. When any of the cached pages is updated on the actual Internet site, the content that Varnish stores in its memory is ‘refreshed’ as well, so the site visitors will not see outdated data.
Varnish in Shared Hosting
We offer Varnish as an optional upgrade with each Linux shared hosting package and if you want to use it, you can add it to your website hosting account via the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. There’re two different things that can be upgraded – the instances and the system memory. The first one refers to the number of the websites that you wish to use Varnish for, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, refers to the maximum amount of content that the platform can store at any given moment. The Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-use GUI will allow you to delete or to restart any instance, to check in-depth logs or to erase the platform’s cache with just one mouse click. For maximum results, you can employ a dedicated IP address for the sites that will use the platform. With Varnish, your Internet site will open substantially faster, which means more happy users and potential clients.