A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each application running on it compared to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD features spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the cost of the two types of drives also differ, numerous PCs and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for file storage, in this way balancing cost and performance. An Internet hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed frequently will be stored on this type of a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

In case you host your sites in a website hosting account from our company, you will definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content which generates increased traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.