A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of any application running on it when compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the cost of the two kinds of drives also differ, many desktops and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, thus balancing cost and effectiveness. A website hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are used repeatedly will be held on such a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new emails through webmail, the content will load quickly. To offer even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. Any content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve that way aside from the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased possibility of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mail messages. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this configuration ensures lightning-fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user will not affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system discovers files which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all of the drives, ensure their long lifespan, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a fast and reliable web hosting service.