A solid-state drive is significantly faster than any conventional hard disk. This is because an HDD works by using spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, at the same time an SDD employs modules of flash memory, hence there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this type of drives an ideal solution every time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are often used for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for saving data that is used often on web servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard drives, but they use several solid-state drives so as to cache the more frequently used data and as a consequence, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks have to spin less often to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared web hosting accounts uses exclusively 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 if you load a page or check for new email messages with webmail, the content will load immediately. So as to ensure even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All the content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve this way except for the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus reduced possibility of hardware failures, and prolonged 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

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will keep 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. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a few heavy sites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes can't impact the other Internet sites which share the same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage drives and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your site content.