A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each application running on it in comparison with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD features spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the prices of the two types of drives are also different, many personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing cost and overall performance. A web hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files that are accessed regularly will be located on this type of a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we create website hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new e-mail messages using webmail, the content will load promptly. To ensure even better speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. Any content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better performance. What we achieve this way except for the better speed is reduced overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you need speed and top-notch performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a very suitable solution since they're made on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for every part of the service - e-mails, databases and files. That way, every single website that you host on our end will load fast. Just like other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you'll be able to take advantage of the high performance at all times and regardless of the nature of your websites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and any frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both reduces the load and guarantees the good performance of all Internet sites that load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased as there'll be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.