Get blazing-fast performance with SSD hosting from Doteasy at just $4.95 per month for the first year.<\/div>\n
Even if you\u2019re not selling anything, serving pages faster is going to increase the overall usability of your site \u2013 that means more interaction, more page views, and more ad revenue if that\u2019s your income source.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a number of third-party services, plugins, and general tactics you can take to improve performance (W3 Total Cache on WordPress, for instance)<\/em>. But ultimately, there\u2019s not a lot you can do if the core performance of your web host is simply too slow \u2013 that particular bottleneck is out of your hands. SSD hosting tackles the core of the problem, as well as enhancing any disk caching performance you would see when used alongside those plugins. The added benefits of SSD hosting will ripple through every layer of your site \u2013 file access, database queries, down to usability.<\/p>\nAlthough the difference in raw data access times compared to a regular disk drive may be measured in milliseconds, when your site is being hammered by high traffic, those milliseconds can make all the difference!<\/p>\n
Reliability<\/h2>\n
Unlike mechanical HDDs which can just give up the ghost and die \u2013 resulting in complete data loss \u2013 SSDs simply prevent further write access at their end of life, while the data stored within it can still be read. The lack of moving parts also means they\u2019re less susceptible to shock or vibration damage, as well as having a greater range of operational temperatures. All of this means you\u2019re less likely to suffer the catastrophe of losing your data or worry about the thought of having to deal with that; thereby allowing you to focus your energy on improving your website.<\/p>\n
This is, of course, no excuse not to back up your site on a regular basis, but it should at least prevent some extreme cases.<\/p>\n
Environmental Considerations<\/h2>\n
As cloud storage and data requirements for the Internet generation increase, it\u2019s important that we make ethically responsible decisions about how<\/em> we power that technological progress \u2013 and make as efficient use of that power as possible. SSDs consume less energy than spinning drives and run cooler \u2013 around 80% less power consumption on a per-gigabyte basis. On an individual server level, it may not make a huge impact, but at the scale of entire data centers, there are real environmental savings to be made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Start From Scratch, or Upgrade Later?<\/h2>\n
If you have an existing hosting plan, you\u2019re going to see instant performance gains in migrating to SSD hosting \u2013 and prices are comparable so there won\u2019t even be a premium to pay. You may find your new plan has slightly less storage allowance, but the chances are you\u2019re not using it all anyway \u2013 sacrificing a little space for a lot of performance gains is a small price to pay.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re just starting out with web development, there\u2019s no excuse to not opt for SSD hosting right from the offset \u2013 but don\u2019t use that as a crutch to neglect all the other aspects of website optimization. Every millisecond of time saved is a good thing!<\/p>\n
<\/h2>\nBut Don\u2019t SSDs Wear Out Faster And Slow Down?<\/h2>\n
In short: no<\/strong>. Even the cheapest SSDs with Triple-Level Cell NAND can withstand the entire capacity of the drive being written to every day for nearly 10 years before deteriorating. In the past, it\u2019s true that performance would degrade with time due to the need to erase a cell before writing to it. Nowadays, the invention of TRIM technology has corrected this \u2013 the operating system will tell the SSD to pre-emptively erase unused cells so that can be immediately written to.<\/p>\nIn summary: better core performance, faster database queries, faster caching \u2013 that\u2019s a winning formula for more traffic, more sales, and more revenue. What are you waiting for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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