A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any app running on it in comparison with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD functions with spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. As the cost of the two types of drives also differ, lots of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, in this way balancing price and effectiveness. An Internet hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are used frequently will be located on this type of a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host your sites in a cloud website hosting account with us, you will definitely notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. In addition to the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your Internet sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content which generates more traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will be better. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, that is an additional warranty for the integrity of any content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one customer don't affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all of the drives, guarantee their long life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a super fast and reliable web hosting service.