A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each app running on it as compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD employs spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the prices of the two types of drives are also different, a large number of personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard disk for file storage, in this way balancing cost and performance. A hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files which are used frequently will be stored on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mails using webmail, the content will load quickly. In order to ensure even higher speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All of the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve that way apart from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

Provided you want speed and high-end performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a really suitable solution because they're generated on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for all aspects of the service - emails, databases and files. This way, each and every Internet site that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the high performance at all times and regardless of the type of your sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both decreases the load and guarantees the excellent performance of all sites that load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.