A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it in comparison with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk uses spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, a large number of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, thus balancing price and overall performance. A hosting provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed frequently will be held on such a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud website hosting account from us, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all files, e-mails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Together with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates increased traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will improve. This in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the potential for a disk failure, that is a further guarantee for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you need speed and fantastic performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a really suitable solution as they're made on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for all aspects of the service - e-mails, databases and files. That way, every website that you host here will load fast. Similar to other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the top performance at all times and whatever the type of your sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and any frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both lowers the load and ensures the excellent performance of all Internet sites that load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased since there will be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.