A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every app running on it when compared to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD functions with spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, many PCs and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for file storage, in this way balancing price and performance. A hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are used on a regular basis will be stored on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared web hosting account with us, you will definitely notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your Internet sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, which is another warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you get one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides lightning-fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user will not affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all the drives, warrant their long lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a fast and reliable website hosting service.