A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each application running on it in comparison to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk uses spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, many personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for file storage, in this way balancing price and performance. A web hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files that are used very often will be located on such a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

In case you host your sites in a hosting account from us, you'll definitely notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates increased traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so that the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will be better. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want speed and top-notch performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a really suitable solution because they're made on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each part of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. This way, every single website that you host on our end will load fast. Just like other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the top performance all of the time and irrespective of the type of your websites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both lowers the load and provides the excellent performance of all websites which load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased since there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.