A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every app running on it compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the prices of the two kinds of drives also differ, numerous personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, thus balancing cost and performance. A hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files that are accessed regularly will be saved on such a drive for accomplishing improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

The cloud platform where we create hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new emails through webmail, the content will load very quickly. To offer even greater 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 read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve that way apart from the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus lower probability of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

Provided you want speed and outstanding performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a very suitable solution because they are created on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each aspect of the service - emails, databases and files. That way, each and every Internet site that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other service 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 good performance all the time and regardless of the nature of your sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both reduces the load and guarantees the optimal performance of all websites that load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased since there'll be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.