A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it when compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. As the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, lots of desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, thus balancing cost and overall performance. A hosting provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed on a regular basis will be stored on such a drive for achieving improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

Our modern cloud website hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so if you buy any of our cloud website hosting packages, you'll benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all open from fast SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching solid-state drives. A group of drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is lowered, so we can ensure perfect performance for all Internet sites irrespective of how often they are accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load extremely fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a number of heavy websites which generate a large amount of reading and writing processes shall not influence the other Internet sites that share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage drives and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of security for your site content.