A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every app running on it when compared to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive functions with spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the prices of the two kinds of drives are also different, many personal computers and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, this way balancing cost and efficiency. A web hosting service provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files that are accessed regularly will be held on this type of a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make web hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new emails with webmail, the content will load promptly. So as to ensure even higher speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All the content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve in this way aside from the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are created on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load amazingly quickly since we employ SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and email addresses. As some people may host sites which are more popular than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system detects any content which is loaded more often and duplicates it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not influence the performance of the rest of the Internet sites that are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the possibility of disk failures.