A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it in comparison to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk features spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives are also different, lots of personal computers and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for file storage, in this way balancing cost and effectiveness. A hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are used regularly will be stored on such a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so if you buy any of our cloud website hosting packages, you'll take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all open from extremely fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for every file that is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can provide perfect performance for all sorts of Internet sites irrespective of how often they're accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the chance of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and email messages. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a few heavy websites which generate plenty of reading and writing processes will not impact the other websites that share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the possibility of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of protection for your site content.