A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any application running on it when compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. As the cost of the two kinds of drives also differ, a lot of desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard disk for file storage, this way balancing cost and efficiency. An Internet hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are accessed frequently will be stored on this type of a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared website hosting account with us, 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 do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your websites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All content which generates increased traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will be better. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. Along with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees extremely fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one customer don't affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their long lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a super fast and reliable web hosting service.