A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any app running on it as compared to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive employs spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the cost of the two types of drives are also different, a lot of desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard disk for file storage, in this way balancing cost and overall performance. A website hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed very often will be located on this type of a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

Our modern cloud web hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you acquire any of our shared website hosting packages, you can take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all load from ultra fast SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can guarantee exceptional performance for all types of websites no matter how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration ensures very fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user do not affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that 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 of the drives, guarantee their extended lifespan, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a super fast and reliable website hosting service.