A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any application running on it as compared to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, numerous desktops and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for data storage, thus balancing price and overall performance. A hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files which are used very often will be stored on this type of a drive for accomplishing improved loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

The cloud platform where we make hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new messages with webmail, the content will load promptly. So as to offer even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All the content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve this way in addition to the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced potential for hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees very fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user don't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all the drives, ensure their extended life-span, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a quick and reliable website hosting service.