A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any application running on it compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, lots of computer systems and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, thus balancing price and efficiency. A web hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are accessed on a regular basis will be saved on this type of a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers in order to ensure improved loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, any content that you upload to your shared hosting account will be reachable very fast. To enhance the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which work exclusively as cache - our system stores frequently accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We take advantage of this kind of a configuration to guarantee that traffic-intensive sites will not affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan shall be longer, which is one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you get one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures extremely fast loading speed for every web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one customer won't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system finds files that 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 consequently we can balance the load on all of the drives, guarantee their long life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a quick and reliable website hosting service.