A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any application running on it in comparison to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with many different interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD features spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two types of drives are also different, many computer systems and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for file storage, in this way balancing cost and overall performance. A web hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed frequently will be held on such a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

In case you host your websites in a cloud hosting account from our company, you'll notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all of the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. In addition to the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your Internet sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates more traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. This in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the potential for a disk failure, which is one more warranty for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mails. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides lightning-fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one customer don't affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system finds files which 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 as a result we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their extended life-span, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a quick and reliable Internet hosting service.