A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every app running on it in comparison with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the cost of the two types of drives are also different, a lot of personal computers and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for file storage, this way balancing cost and efficiency. A website hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are used frequently will be located on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

Our innovative cloud website hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you buy any of our cloud hosting solutions, you'll benefit from the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all open from high-speed SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for each file that's accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can guarantee excellent performance for all kinds of websites no matter how frequently they're accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and e-mails. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a couple of heavy Internet sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes shall not affect the other sites which share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage disks and reduce the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of stability for your website content.