A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it as compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD uses 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 types of drives are also different, a large number of personal computers and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing price and overall performance. A hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed frequently will be kept on such a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new email messages through webmail, the content will load right away. In order to ensure even higher speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All of the content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve by doing this aside from the better speed is reduced overall load, thus lower probability of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mail messages. Together with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides extremely fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user don't affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all drives, guarantee their long life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable website hosting service.