A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each application running on it compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk works by using spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two kinds of drives also differ, lots of personal computers and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing cost and effectiveness. An Internet hosting provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files that are used frequently will be saved 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 Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a shared website hosting account with us, you will definitely notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Along with the advanced ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates more traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so 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 lessens the chance of a disk failure, which is an additional guarantee for the integrity of any 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 will keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and email messages. This way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load extremely fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a few heavy websites that generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes can't affect the other websites which share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage disks and decrease the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of stability for your website content.