A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any app running on it compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk employs spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the cost of the two types of drives also differ, a large number of desktops and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing price and overall performance. An Internet hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are used very often will be kept on this type of a drive for accomplishing improved loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

Our top-notch cloud web hosting platform uses only SSD drives, so if you get any of our cloud website hosting packages, you can benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from ultra fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can guarantee excellent performance for all types of websites irrespective of how frequently they are accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mails. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration ensures fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user don't affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system finds files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so 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, ensure their extended lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a super fast and reliable web hosting service.