A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any application running on it compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD uses spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the cost of the two types of drives are also different, many desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard disk for file storage, this way balancing cost and overall performance. A web hosting service provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are accessed frequently will be saved on this type of a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
We use only SSDs on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on the production servers in order to ensure improved loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, any content that you upload to your shared web hosting account will be reachable very quickly. To enhance the overall performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs that function solely as cache - our system stores regularly accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We use this kind of a configuration to ensure that resource-demanding sites will never influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, which is one more warranty for the security and stability of your data.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mail messages. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees extremely fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the sites of one customer do not affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system finds files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and as a result we can balance the load on all drives, guarantee their long life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a quick and reliable web hosting service.