A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD contains spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives also differ, numerous desktops and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and an HDD for file storage, in this way balancing price and overall performance. A hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed on a regular basis will be kept on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you'll notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all files, e-mail addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. In addition to the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content which generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will improve. The latter subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the integrity of all content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and email messages. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very quickly. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a couple of heavy websites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes will not impact the other sites that share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage disks and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of security for your website content.