A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each app running on it compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD features spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is limited. As the cost of the two types of drives are also different, many personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, in this way balancing cost and efficiency. An Internet hosting service provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are accessed repeatedly will be kept on such a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

Our modern cloud web hosting platform uses only SSD drives, so in case you obtain any of our cloud web hosting solutions, you can benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and emails will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for each file that's accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is lowered, so we can provide excellent performance for all kinds of sites irrespective of how often they are accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you buy one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mails. In addition to 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 ensure that the sites of one customer will not affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates 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, warrant their long life-span, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a quick and reliable website hosting service.