A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each application running on it in comparison to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD functions with spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the cost of the two types of drives also differ, a large number of personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, in this way balancing cost and performance. A web hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed repeatedly will be stored on such a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make web hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new messages with webmail, the content will load very quickly. In order to offer even greater speeds, we also use numerous 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 primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve by doing this aside from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus reduced chance of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and email messages. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy sites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes will not affect the other Internet sites which share the same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage disks and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of protection for your content.