A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive functions with spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the cost of the two types of drives are also different, a large number of PCs and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, this way balancing price and efficiency. A hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed frequently will be stored on this type of a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

If you host your websites in a web hosting account with our company, you'll notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your websites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will improve. This subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, that is another guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want speed and outstanding performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a really suitable solution because they're made on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for every part of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. That way, every single website that you host here will load fast. Just like other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you'll be able to take advantage of the high performance at all times and irrespective of the type of your sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and any frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both lowers the load and guarantees the optimal performance of all Internet sites which load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there'll be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.