A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each app running on it compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk functions with spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the prices of the two kinds of drives also differ, a large number of PCs and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard disk for data storage, in this way balancing price and efficiency. An Internet hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files which are accessed frequently will be held on this type of a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared hosting account with us, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all files, emails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Together with the revolutionary ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your websites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content that generates increased traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. The latter in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, which is an additional warranty for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mails. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load speedily. We use dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is copied automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a number of heavy sites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not affect the other sites that share the exact same drive. By reducing 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 protection for your website content.