A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each app running on it as compared 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 employs spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the cost of the two types of drives are different as well, lots of PCs and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for file storage, thus balancing price and effectiveness. A hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are accessed frequently will be saved on this type of a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

We use only SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers as to provide better loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, any content that you upload to your hosting account will be accessible very quickly. To improve the overall performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that work solely as cache - our system stores routinely accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We employ this kind of a configuration to make sure that traffic-intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, which is one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your websites will load extremely fast because we employ SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some users may host Internet sites which can be more frequently visited than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system detects any content that is loaded more often and duplicates it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the rest of the Internet sites that are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the chance of disk failures.