A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it when compared to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD employs spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the cost of the two types of drives are different as well, a large number of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, in this way balancing cost and effectiveness. An Internet hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files that are used on a regular basis will be saved on this type of a drive for accomplishing improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
We use exclusively SSDs on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers in order to provide improved loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all the content you upload to your shared hosting account will be accessible very quickly. To improve the overall performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs that function only as cache - our system stores frequently accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We take advantage of this kind of a configuration to guarantee that multi-media loaded Internet sites do not influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and this way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. What's more, 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 Servers
In case you buy one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides very fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one user won't affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their long lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a quick and reliable Internet hosting service.