A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any application running on it when compared to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with many different interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, numerous PCs and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, in this way balancing cost and efficiency. A website hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed regularly will be saved on this type of a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

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

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very quickly. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a number of heavy sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other websites which share the very same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage drives and lower the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your site content.