A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every app running on it when compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses multiple 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 spin, so the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the cost of the two types of drives also differ, a large number of personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing price and effectiveness. A hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are used very often will be saved on such a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless of whether you load a page or check for new emails through webmail, the content will load promptly. To ensure even greater speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. Any content that generates lots 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 better efficiency. What we achieve that way except for the better speed is reduced overall load, thus lower probability of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mails. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a number of heavy websites 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 main storage disks and lower the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your content.