A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each application running on it in comparison to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the prices of the two types of drives are different as well, a lot of computer systems and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and an HDD for data storage, in this way balancing price and efficiency. A website hosting provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are accessed regularly will be stored on this type of a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your sites in a shared website hosting account from our company, you will notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your sites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will improve. This subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the possibility of a disk failure, that is a further guarantee for the integrity of all content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are generated on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load quickly since we use SSDs for each aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some people may host Internet sites that can be more frequently visited than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system identifies all of the content that is loaded more frequently and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the other websites that are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the chance of disk failures.