A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each application running on it when compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD uses spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, lots of computer systems and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing price and effectiveness. A web hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files which are used regularly will be stored on such a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform employs exclusively SSD drives, so in case you acquire any of our shared website hosting packages, you can take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mails will all load from quick SSDs. For even improved performance, we use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for every file that is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can ensure excellent performance for all types of websites no matter how many times they're accessed and prevent a situation where some Internet sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want speed and excellent performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a very suitable solution as they're made on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for every part of the service - e-mails, databases and files. That way, each and every site that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the good performance all the time and regardless of the type of your websites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and any frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both reduces the load and guarantees the good performance of all Internet sites which load straight from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased as there'll be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.