A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each app running on it when compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD features 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, a large number of desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, this way balancing price and overall performance. A hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files that are accessed regularly will be stored on this type of a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
If you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you will 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 don't use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your websites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will be better. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, which is a further warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mail messages. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration ensures extremely fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the sites of one customer don't affect the ones of another, 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 long lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a quick and reliable website hosting service.