A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every application running on it when compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD functions with spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two types of drives also differ, lots of computer systems and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, thus balancing price and efficiency. A web hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are accessed on a regular basis will be kept on this type of a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our innovative cloud web hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so if you purchase any of our shared hosting solutions, you can take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and e-mails will all load from quick SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for any file that's accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is reduced, so we can provide perfect performance for all sites no matter how often they are accessed and prevent a situation where some Internet sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want speed and top-notch performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a really suitable solution because they are made on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for each aspect of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. This way, every single website that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the top performance all the time and whatever the type of your websites. 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 optimal performance of all sites that load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased considering that there'll be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.