A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it as compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, many desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing price and efficiency. A web hosting provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are accessed frequently will be kept on this type of a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud web hosting account from us, you will definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your Internet sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that 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 websites hosted on our end will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load extremely fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make certain that several heavy websites that generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes can't impact the other sites that share the same drive. By reducing the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage disks and decrease the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of protection for your content.