A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it in comparison to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD functions with spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the cost of the two types of drives also differ, numerous desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard disk for file storage, in this way balancing price and overall performance. An Internet hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are used regularly will be saved on this type of a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new e-mail messages using webmail, the content will load quickly. In order to offer even higher speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. Any content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better performance. What we achieve that way aside from the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus lower probability of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you need speed and fantastic performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a really suitable solution as they're created on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each aspect of the service - email addresses, databases and files. That way, every single site that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the high performance all of the time and whatever the nature of your Internet sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both minimizes the load and guarantees the good performance of all websites that load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased considering that there'll be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.