Varnish is a content caching platform, which is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator that can increase the loading speed of a website by up to one thousand percent, depending on its content. Every time a visitor opens any page on a website that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor accesses it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will open tremendously faster, since Varnish can deliver content many times faster than any server software. The result will be a much faster loading page, which means a much-improved browsing experience. When any of the cached webpages is updated on the actual website, the content that Varnish caches in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ too, so the users won’t end up seeing outdated information.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

Varnish is offered as an optional upgrade with each and every shared website hosting and if you’d like to use it, you can add it to your website hosting account using the Upgrades section in your Hepsia Control Panel. There are two separate features that can be upgraded – the number of instances and the system memory. The first one pertains to the number of the sites that you would like to employ Varnish for, whereas the second, which is available in increments of 32 megabytes, shows the total amount of data that the platform can cache at any given time. Hepsia’s easy-to-work-with interface will enable you to switch off or to reboot any instance, to view elaborate system logs or to get rid of the platform’s cache with just one click. For best results, you can use a dedicated IP for the websites that will use the caching platform. With Varnish, your website will load much faster, meaning more satisfied website users and prospective customers.