A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each application running on it in comparison with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the cost of the two kinds of drives also differ, numerous desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, in this way balancing price and effectiveness. A hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files which are used on a regular basis will be stored on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
In case you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account from our company, you will definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the advanced ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content that generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will improve. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the chance of a disk failure, which is one more warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you want speed and excellent performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a very suitable solution since they are created on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for each part of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. This way, every single website that you host with us will load fast. Just like other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the top-notch performance at all times and whatever the type of your sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both minimizes the load and ensures the optimal performance of all Internet sites that load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there'll be considerably less reading and writing processes on them.