A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it in comparison to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive employs spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the cost of the two types of drives also differ, a large number of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, in this way balancing price and performance. A hosting provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are accessed on a regular basis will be saved on such a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

Our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you purchase any of our shared web hosting solutions, you'll take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and emails will all load from high-speed SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for each file that is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can ensure exceptional performance for all types of sites no matter how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides extremely fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user won't affect the ones of another, we also use a number of 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 updated dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their extended life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable website hosting service.