A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each application running on it as compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk contains spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. As the prices of the two kinds of drives are different as well, a large number of personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, in this way balancing price and overall performance. A web hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files that are used repeatedly will be saved on such a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new e-mails through webmail, the content will load without delay. So as to offer even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All 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. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve in this way apart from the better speed is lowered overall load, thus lower probability of hardware failures, and longer 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 Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mails. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very quickly. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a few heavy Internet sites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes shall not influence the other websites which share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of protection for your site content.