Hosting Vendor SiteGround Using StorPool Distributed Storage Solution

The hosting provider SiteGround chose StorPool Ltd for its container based hosting service.

SiteGround has achieved hundreds of times faster performance by using StorPool’s distributed storage solution. One of the biggest challenges for the hosting vendor was to increase redundancy by implementing a cost-effective shared storage solution. It was also looking at ways to increase the performance (IO/s) and throughput (Mb/s) of their storage system.

By using StorPool’s distributed storage system, in case of any hardware issue, SiteGround can minimize downtime to next to none by having all instances running on a particular server to be instantly powered up on another server.

The integration of StorPool within the SiteGround’s hosting infrastructure is announced officially after it was production-proved and was long-awaited.

Ivaylo Nikolov, CIO, SiteGround, said: “StorPool’s solution and scaling model allows us to achieve hundreds of times faster performance and scale both computing and storage clusters instantly.“

According to SiteGround, they have been able to save a couple of hundreds of thousands of dollars on investment in a traditional storage array. They already have a competitive edge by implementing commodity hardware. This advantage comes not only in the form of price, but also by what they can do and how fast they can do it.

Performance and reliability at affordable price is a combination, you can hardly get from any storage vendor. And that was one of the main reasons why SiteGround chose StorPool as a partner.

“One of the key differentiators between SiteGround’s enterprise web hosting services and other solutions on the market is our extreme cost-effectiveness without compromising on power and resilience. We consistently hit top results in our regular performance benchmarks and back that up with a 99.99% or higher SLAs. Using StorPool along with a low-latency and high bandwidth IB network allows us to match the speed of local SSD storage, which is amazing. To top that up, having a distributed storage that can easily be accessed by any server in the cluster means we can practically eliminate downtime or reduce it to meres in case of a hardware failure, which makes our services incredibly reliable,” said Tenko Nikolov, CEO, SiteGround.

Better storage means practically better hosting. Distributed storage will allow hosting companies using StorPool to cut costs on larger storage arrays and in the same time will bring more performance to the their end customers.