A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any application running on it when compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive employs spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two types of drives also differ, many personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and an HDD for data storage, this way balancing price and performance. A hosting service provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are used regularly will be held on this type of a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you'll notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, emails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the innovative ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your Internet sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content that generates more traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will be better. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the chance of a disk failure, which is another warranty for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and email messages. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a few heavy Internet sites that generate a large amount of reading and writing processes will not influence the other Internet sites which share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and lower the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of security for your content.