A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each app running on it as compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive employs spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives also differ, lots of computer systems and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, this way balancing cost and efficiency. An Internet hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are used on a regular basis will be saved on this type of a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
In case you host your websites in a cloud hosting account from us, you'll notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Along with the amazing ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your websites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. This in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, that is one more warranty for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and email messages. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides very fast loading speed for any web app 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 which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all drives, warrant their extended life-span, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a super fast and reliable Internet hosting service.