A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it when compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two types of drives are also different, lots of personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, this way balancing cost and effectiveness. A website hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are accessed on a regular basis will be located on this type of a drive for achieving improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our advanced cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers in order to provide better loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, all of the content you upload to your cloud web hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. To boost the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs that function only as cache - our system stores regularly accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We use this kind of a configuration to make sure that multi-media loaded sites will not affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span will be longer, that's one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and email messages. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load amazingly quickly. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a couple of heavy sites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not influence the other Internet sites that share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage disks and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your website content.