A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each app running on it as compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the cost of the two types of drives also differ, lots of PCs and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and an HDD for data storage, this way balancing price and overall performance. A web hosting provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are accessed regularly will be located on such a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

We use only SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on the production servers as to offer lightning-fast loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, all the content that you upload to your hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. To improve the performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which function solely as cache - our system stores often accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We take advantage of this kind of a configuration to guarantee that resource-demanding Internet sites don't influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span will be longer, which is one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load very quickly because we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. As some people may host sites that can be more frequently visited than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system finds any content that is accessed more often and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the websites which are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and decreases the potential for disk failures.