A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every app running on it in comparison with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk works by using spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is limited. As the prices of the two kinds of drives are different as well, lots of personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and an HDD for data storage, thus balancing price and effectiveness. An Internet hosting service provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, so 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-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on the production servers so as to provide outstanding loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all the content that you upload to your shared hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. To improve the overall performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs that function exclusively as cache - our system saves regularly accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We use such a configuration to guarantee that multi-media heavy sites will not affect the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span will be longer, that's one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this configuration guarantees extremely fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user don't affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their long life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a quick and reliable Internet hosting service.