A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of any app running on it compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using a variety 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 limited. Because the prices of the two kinds of drives also differ, many personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, in this way balancing price and performance. A hosting service provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are used on a regular basis will be kept on this type of a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
In case you host your sites in a cloud hosting account from us, you will definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all files, e-mail addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your Internet sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates increased traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will be better. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens the chance of a disk failure, that is a further warranty for the integrity of all content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
Provided you want speed and outstanding performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a really suitable solution as they're created on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for all aspects of the service - emails, databases and files. This way, each and every website that you host with us will load fast. Just like other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the good performance at all times and whatever the nature 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 provides the good performance of all sites that load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased since there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.