A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any app running on it as compared to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there are 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 restricted. As the prices of the two kinds of drives are different as well, a large number of computer systems and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for file storage, this way balancing cost and efficiency. A web hosting provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are used on a regular basis will be kept on such a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create web hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new e-mail messages through webmail, the content will load very quickly. In order to ensure even higher speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve that way apart from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, which is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this configuration guarantees extremely fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user won't affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and as a result we can balance the load on all of the drives, guarantee their long lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a super fast and reliable website hosting service.