A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every application running on it as compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk contains spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the prices of the two types of drives are different as well, numerous personal computers and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, in this way balancing cost and efficiency. A web hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed very often will be held on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new email messages through webmail, the content will load immediately. So as to ensure even greater speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All the content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve by doing this aside from the better speed is lowered overall load, thus lower probability of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you need speed and outstanding performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a really suitable solution as they are generated on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for each part of the service - email addresses, databases and files. That way, each site that you host here will load fast. Just like other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you'll be able to take advantage of the good performance all the time and regardless of the type of your websites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both lowers the load and guarantees the good performance of all sites that load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased considering that there will be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.