A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any app running on it when compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk functions with spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the prices of the two types of drives are different as well, many 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 cost and overall performance. A hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed frequently will be stored on such a drive for accomplishing improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host your sites in a cloud website hosting account with our company, you will definitely notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Together with the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your websites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates increased traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will be better. The latter subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, that is a further warranty for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mail messages. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user don't affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and clones them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all the drives, warrant their extended lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable web hosting service.