A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each app running on it as compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD features spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the cost of the two types of drives also differ, a large number of PCs 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 effectiveness. A hosting provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files that are accessed repeatedly will be located on this type of a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new messages through webmail, the content will load immediately. To offer even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve in this way aside from the better speed is reduced overall load, thus lower chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and e-mails. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that several heavy websites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not affect the other sites which share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the possibility of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of security for your website content.