A solid-state drive is much faster than any conventional hard disk. This is because a hard-disk drive employs rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, whereas an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this sort of drives an ideal solution in case speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are in many cases used for the Operating System on a computer system and for storing data that is accessed repeatedly on hosting servers. Many service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they store the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of SSDs so as to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is lowered since their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new e-mails using webmail, the content will load promptly. In order to offer even greater speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve this way except for the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and emails. This way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load extremely fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a number of heavy websites which generate a large amount of reading and writing processes won't influence the other Internet sites which share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the chance of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of security for your content.