A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it in comparison to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk contains spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the prices of the two types of drives are also different, lots of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, thus balancing price and effectiveness. An Internet hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed frequently will be kept on this type of a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make website hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new messages through webmail, the content will load immediately. So as to offer even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All 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 much better performance. What we achieve by doing this in addition to the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and email messages. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees lightning-fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user will not affect the ones of another, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their long life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a quick and reliable web hosting service.