A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every app running on it as compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the prices of the two types of drives are different as well, a large number of desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and an HDD for data storage, thus balancing price and performance. A website hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files which are used very often will be stored on this type of a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

Our modern cloud web hosting platform employs exclusively SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our cloud hosting plans, you'll take full advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and emails will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for any file which is accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is lowered, so we can ensure excellent performance for all types of websites no matter how often they are accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your websites will load extremely fast because we use SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some customers may host websites which can be more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system detects all the content which is loaded more regularly and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive sites will not influence the performance of the other websites that are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the probability of disk failures.