A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every app running on it as compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD works by using spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, lots of PCs and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing cost and effectiveness. A website hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files which are accessed on a regular basis will be stored on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

In case you host your websites in a shared hosting account from our company, you'll notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all of the files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the integrity of all content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load extremely fast as we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. As some users may host sites which are more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system discovers all of the content that is loaded more regularly and copies it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the websites which are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the probability of disk failures.