A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the prices of the two types of drives are also different, a lot of personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard disk for file storage, thus balancing cost and efficiency. A web hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are used repeatedly will be kept on this type of a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

Our innovative cloud website hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you go for any of our shared website hosting packages, you will take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and email messages will all open from high-speed SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for each file that's accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can ensure fantastic performance for all kinds of websites irrespective of how frequently they're accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want speed and outstanding performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a really suitable solution as they are made on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for each part of the service - email addresses, databases and files. This way, every single Internet site that you host here 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 high performance all the time and regardless of the nature of your Internet sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and any frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both lowers the load and ensures the fantastic performance of all Internet sites which load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased as there'll be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.