A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every application running on it in comparison to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk employs spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is limited. As the prices of the two types of drives also differ, lots of personal computers and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, this way balancing cost and overall performance. A web hosting provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files which are used frequently will be kept on this type of a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers as to ensure outstanding loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, all the content you upload to your website hosting account will be reachable very quickly. In order to boost the performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that function exclusively as cache - our system stores routinely accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We take advantage of this kind of a setup to ensure that resource-demanding sites don't affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span will be longer, that is one more warranty for the safety and stability of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. Together with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides very fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one customer do not affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all of the drives, guarantee their long lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a fast and reliable website hosting service.