A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of any application running on it when compared with a regular 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 contains spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two types of drives also differ, a large number of personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and an HDD for data storage, in this way balancing price and efficiency. A web hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed on a regular basis will be located on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
The cloud platform where we create shared hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless of whether you load a page or check for new e-mail messages using webmail, the content will load immediately. So as to ensure even higher speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All the content which 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 improved performance. What we achieve this way in addition to the better speed is reduced overall load, thus reduced probability of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and email messages. Together with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides lightning-fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user do not affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all drives, ensure their long lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a super fast and reliable website hosting service.