SSD with Data Caching
Know more about SSD drives and discover what SSD caching is. Just what are the advantages of using an SSD drive-equipped website hosting server?
A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each application running on it as compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two types of drives also differ, a large number of computer systems and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing price and performance. A web hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are used frequently will be located on this type of a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
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SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting
The cloud platform where we make
cloud web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mail messages with webmail, the content will load quickly. To offer even higher speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. Any content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve in this way in addition to the better speed is reduced overall load, thus decreased possibility of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.
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SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you buy one of our
semi-dedicated server plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures lightning-fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one customer do not affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and clones them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all the drives, warrant their extended lifespan, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a super fast and reliable Internet hosting service.