A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each app running on it as compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk works by using spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the prices of the two types of drives are also different, a large number of PCs and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, thus balancing price and overall performance. A hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are used on a regular basis will be kept on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

We use only SSDs on our top-notch cloud web hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on the production servers in order to offer better loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, all of the content you upload to your website hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. To enhance the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that work exclusively as cache - our system stores repeatedly accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We use such a setup to make sure that resource-demanding sites do not affect the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span will be longer, that is one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load extremely fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that several heavy Internet sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes won't affect the other Internet sites that share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage drives and lower the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of protection for your content.