A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it when compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk contains spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the prices of the two kinds of drives are also different, a large number of PCs and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, in this way balancing price and effectiveness. A hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are accessed regularly will be held on this type of a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account from our company, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your websites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates increased traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens the chance of a disk failure, that is a further warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load very quickly since we employ SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some people may host websites that could be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system discovers all the content which is loaded more regularly and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the other sites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the possibility of disk failures.