A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each app running on it compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the cost of the two types of drives also differ, many desktops and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for file storage, in this way balancing price and performance. A hosting provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files that are accessed on a regular basis will be located on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a website hosting account with us, you will notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Together with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your websites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates increased traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, which is another guarantee for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make certain that several heavy Internet sites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes can't influence the other websites which share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage drives and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of stability for your site content.