A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any application running on it in comparison with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive functions with spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two types of drives are also different, a large number of desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, thus balancing cost and effectiveness. A website hosting service provider may 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 achieving higher loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new e-mails through webmail, the content will load very quickly. In order to ensure even better speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which 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 main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve by doing this except for the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced possibility of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

Provided you want speed and outstanding performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a very suitable solution since they are made on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for each part of the service - email addresses, databases and files. This way, every single website that you host on our end will load fast. Just like 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 whatever the type of your websites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both minimizes the load and ensures the excellent performance of all websites that load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased because there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.