A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every app running on it as compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk features spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the cost of the two types of drives also differ, lots of computer systems and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for file storage, thus balancing price and performance. A web hosting provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files that are used on a regular basis will be held on such a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

In case you host your websites in a web hosting account from us, you will definitely notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Along with the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your Internet sites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content which generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will improve. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, that is one more guarantee for the integrity 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 created on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load very quickly because we use SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. As some customers may host websites that are more popular than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system detects all of the content that is accessed more often and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the possibility of disk failures.