A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it in comparison with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk features spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the prices of the two kinds of drives also differ, lots of PCs and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard disk for data storage, in this way balancing price and overall performance. A website hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed frequently will be saved on this type of a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

In case you host your sites in a shared hosting account with our company, you'll notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates increased traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will be better. This in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the potential for a disk failure, that is another guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load amazingly quickly because we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some people may host Internet sites that could be more frequently visited than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system identifies all of the content that is loaded more frequently and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the other websites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the chance of disk failures.