A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every app running on it compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD works by using spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the cost of the two types of drives are different as well, lots of PCs and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing price and efficiency. A website hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are used repeatedly will be stored on such a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for limiting 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 us, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your websites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use numerous 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 promptly, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. This in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, that is another guarantee for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If 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 of the databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a few heavy websites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes will not affect the other Internet sites that share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage disks and reduce the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your website content.