A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each app running on it when compared to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, 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 fixed. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives are also different, lots of computer systems and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing cost and performance. A web hosting provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are accessed frequently will be saved on such a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new email messages using webmail, the content will load without delay. So as to ensure even higher speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve by doing this except for the better speed is decreased overall load, thus lower chance of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of security for any information 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 will be a very suitable solution since they're made on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for every part of the service - e-mails, databases and files. This way, each Internet site that you host on our end will load fast. Just like other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the good performance all the time and irrespective of the type of your websites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both lowers the load and guarantees the good performance of all sites which load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased considering that there'll be considerably less reading and writing processes on them.