A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each app running on it as compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD contains spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two types of drives are different as well, numerous computer systems and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, in this way balancing cost and overall performance. A website hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files which are used regularly will be saved on this type of a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new e-mail messages through webmail, the content will load very quickly. In order to offer even higher speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve by doing this aside from the better speed is reduced overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, which is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and email messages. Together with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one customer won't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system discovers files which 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 for that reason we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their extended life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a quick and reliable Internet hosting service.