A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each app running on it compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk functions with spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the prices of the two types of drives also differ, a large number of computer systems and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing cost and effectiveness. A website hosting provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are used repeatedly will be stored on such a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mails with webmail, the content will load quickly. To offer even higher speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve that way in addition to the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus reduced possibility of hardware failures, and prolonged 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

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load amazingly quickly since we use SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and emails. Considering that some users may host websites which are more frequently visited than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system discovers all the content which is loaded more often and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive sites will not influence the performance of the other websites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the possibility of disk failures.