A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it as compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive features spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. As the prices of the two types of drives are different as well, lots of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, in this way balancing cost and efficiency. An Internet hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are accessed regularly will be located on such a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a shared website hosting account from our company, you'll notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your websites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will be better. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, that is an additional warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.