SSD Web Hosting

SSD Hosting for Database Driven Applications :

Running a large blog, e-commerce store, or custom application requires a lot of database input and output (I/O). As your site gets more popular and traffic starts to grow, your hard drives will start getting more and more concurrent I/O requests. During peak viewing times, the amount of I/O requests can slow down the recall of information from your database. This is especially true for sites on traditional "spinning media" disk drives. The physical limitations of spinning hard disks and the mechanical head restricts the amount of information that can be requested at a given time.

This is where our new SSD Hosting is superior. With a lack of moving parts, data transfer is only restricted by the speed of the network (which is why our shared servers are already on blazingly fast 1Gbps networks).

In a benchmark test, we tested our already fast SAS 15K drives against 1TB Samsung solid-state drives during busy I/O periods. The result, SSDs pushed out 95% more data than these hard disk drives!

Package	SSD Business Cloud	SSD Advanced Cloud
36 month Fee *	$10.00$9.00	$18.00$17.00
24 month Fee *	$10.50$9.50	$18.50$17.50
12 month Fee *	$11.00$10.00	$19.00$18.00
6 month Fee *	$11.50$10.50	$19.50$18.50
3 month Fee *	$11.75$10.75	$19.75$18.75
Monthly Fee *	$11.95$10.95	$19.95$18.95
Disk Space	10 GB	20 GB
Usable data transfer	Unlimited	Unlimited
Free Domain Names	Yes	Yes
Available Hosted Domains	2	5
Payment Methods	Diverse	Diverse
Plan Upgrades	Yes	Yes
30 Day Money Back Guarantee	Yes	Yes
No Contracts	Yes	Yes
Web Statistics	Daily	Daily
Sub Domains	3	5
Parked Domains	Yes	Yes
FTP Access	24/7	24/7
Dedicated IP	No	Yes
$100 Google Adwords Credit	Yes	Yes
Private SSL	No	Yes
Backups	Daily	Daily
RAID 5 - Disk Mirroring	Yes	Yes
Port Speed	1Gbps	1Gbps
Cpanel	Yes	Yes
Ffmpeg(Video / Audio streaming)	Yes	Yes
Softaculous (175 pre-installed scripts)	Yes	Yes
Email Features :
POP3 Email	40	100
IMAP	Yes	Yes
Spam Filters	Yes	Yes
Email Aliases	Unlimited	Unlimited
Email Catchall	Yes	Yes
SMTP Mail	Yes	Yes
Email Control Panel	Yes	Yes
Web Mail Access	Yes	Yes
Autoresponders	Yes	Yes
Mail Forwarding	Yes	Yes
Mailing List	Yes	Yes
Control Panel Features :
Video Tutorials	Yes	Yes
File Manager	Yes	Yes
Web Disk	Yes	Yes
Directory Protection	Yes	Yes
Hotlinking Protection	Yes	Yes
Front Page Extensions	Yes	Yes
Formmail	Yes	Yes
Blog ( Wordpress, B2evolution.. )	Yes	Yes
Scripting Tools :
Your own Cgi-Bin	Yes	Yes
SSI	Yes	Yes
Cron	Yes	Yes
PHP 5 with Zend Support	Yes	Yes
Perl Support	Yes	Yes
Python Support	Yes	Yes
MySQL database	5	10
phpMyAdmin	Yes	Yes
ImageMagick	Yes	Yes
GD Library	Yes	Yes
Forums (Discussion Boards)	Yes	Yes
Free Module Installation	Yes	Yes
Redirect URL	Yes	Yes
IP Deny Manager	Yes	Yes
Apache Handlers	Yes	Yes
MIME Types	Yes	Yes
E-Commerce :
PrestaShop	Yes	Yes
OpenCart	Yes	Yes
Magento	Yes	Yes
Zen Cart	Yes	Yes
osCommerce	Yes	Yes
Cube cart	Yes	Yes
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools by Attracta (TM) :
Attracta SEO Tools	Yes	Yes
Get in Google, Yahoo & Bing	Yes	Yes
XML Sitemap Submission	Yes	Yes
Google Score Card	Yes	Yes
Broken Links Report	Yes	Yes
Google Maps Listing	Yes	Yes
Link-Building Directory	Yes	Yes
SEO consultation	Yes	Yes
Web / Ftp Statistics :
AWStats	Yes	Yes
Webalizer	Yes	Yes
Analog	Yes	Yes
Raw Log Manager	Yes	Yes
Referrer Logs	24/7	24/7
Error Log	Yes	Yes
Latest Visitors Stats	Yes	Yes
Customer Service :
24 hour Monitoring	Yes	Yes
Email Support	24/7	24/7
Phone Support	24/7	24/7

Benchmarking Latency (time it takes to get data)

Hard drives have two things working against it when it comes to data retrieval. The first is the rotational latency of the of the disk. The second is the seek time that it takes for the read/write head to find the data on the disk. SSDs have neither of these issues.

We benchmarked the latency of our SSD hosting servers versus a server with hard disk drives under high network load. As you can see, hard disk drives take about 20 times longer to access data during periods of heavy I/O requests.

4GoodHosting's Hosting Shared SSD Servers

Unlike other hosting companies, 4GoodHosting Hosting lets you use solid-state drives to host all types of data. This means you can host your blog on one domain, your friend’s static website on another, and your client's ecommerce site – all from the same Business or Advanced hosting account. There are no restrictions with how you can use our SSD Hosting.

• Dynamic content management systems (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.)
• Ecommerce stores (PrestaShop, OpenCart, etc.)
• Self-built websites & applications
• Static HTML websites with SSD Hosting

Data Loss Prevention

Our SSD Hosting servers utilize RAID cards with battery-backed non-volatile caching. This means that in the event of sudden power loss, any data yet to be written will be stored in cache until the server is brought back to normal operation. Inbound data will then be written and stored as if nothing happened.

We've also taken measures to ensure zero impact on our customers from any SSD failures that might occur. Our solid-state drives are placed in RAID-5 configuration with extra backup drives to ensure data integrity throughout our SSD hosting servers.

Improving Server Reliability

With no mechanical parts that could lead to disk failure or temperature augmentation, unlike Hard drives, SSDs work smoothly with a higher speed. They are, in addition to that, most known for less latency to serve data to visitors no matter where they are located in the world.