A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every application running on it compared to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. As the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, a lot of PCs and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing price and efficiency. A web hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are used very often will be located on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new e-mail messages using webmail, the content will load without delay. So as to ensure even better speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. Any content that generates a lot 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 better performance. What we achieve by doing this except for the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy Internet sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes can't influence the other Internet sites which share the same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage disks and decrease the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of protection for your content.