A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each application running on it in comparison to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the prices of the two types of drives are different as well, numerous desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, thus balancing price and effectiveness. A hosting service provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are used repeatedly will be saved on this type of a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our advanced cloud web hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers so as to offer improved loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. That way, all the content which you upload to your shared hosting account will be accessible very quickly. In order to improve the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs which function only as cache - our system stores often accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We take advantage of such a setup to guarantee that resource-demanding Internet sites will not affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, given that the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more warranty for the safety and stability of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load very fast since we use SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and emails. As some customers may host websites which can be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system discovers any content that is accessed more frequently and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.