A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives are also different, lots of desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, thus balancing cost and overall performance. A hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed on a regular basis will be kept on such a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud website hosting account with us, you will definitely notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates increased traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, that is another guarantee for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. Along with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures very fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one customer won't affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their extended lifespan, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable website hosting service.