A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every app running on it in comparison to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD contains spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives also differ, a lot of desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, this way balancing cost and performance. A web hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files that are used very often will be saved on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared hosting account with us, you will notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. In addition to the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your websites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will be better. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the potential for a disk failure, which is another guarantee for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and email messages. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load extremely fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy sites which generate a large amount of reading and writing processes will not influence the other sites which share the same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage disks and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of security for your website content.