A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any application running on it as compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk contains spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the cost of the two types of drives are also different, many personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, this way balancing price and effectiveness. A web hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are used regularly will be located on this type of a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

We use only SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on the production servers in order to provide better loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all of the content that you upload to your shared web hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. In order to boost the overall performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which function only as cache - our system stores routinely accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We take advantage of this type of a setup to ensure that traffic-intensive Internet sites will never influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and this way all other Internet sites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, which is one more warranty for the safety and integrity of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get 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 emails. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides extremely fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user won't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system finds files which are accessed more frequently and clones 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 of the drives, guarantee their extended life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a fast and reliable website hosting service.