A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every application running on it compared to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk works by using spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the prices of the two types of drives are also different, many desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard disk for data storage, this way balancing price and effectiveness. A hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are accessed very often will be located on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new messages through webmail, the content will load immediately. To offer even higher speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve that way aside from the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus decreased chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. Together with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this configuration guarantees extremely fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one customer don't affect the ones of another, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system finds files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all drives, guarantee their long lifespan, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a fast and reliable web hosting service.