A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any application running on it compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive functions with spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives are different as well, a lot of personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, this way balancing price and effectiveness. A hosting service provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files which are used very often will be kept on this type of a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

In case you host your websites in a hosting account with us, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all of the files, emails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Along with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your Internet sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates increased traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, 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 lessens the possibility of a disk failure, that is a further guarantee for the integrity of all content which you upload to your account.