A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it as compared to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD functions with spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two types of drives also differ, numerous desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, this way balancing price and effectiveness. A website hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are used very often will be saved on such a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

Our top-notch cloud web hosting platform employs exclusively SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our shared web hosting solutions, you'll take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and emails will all load from high-speed SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for any file which is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can guarantee exceptional performance for all types of websites no matter how many times they are accessed and prevent a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Provided you want speed and fantastic performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a very suitable solution since they're created on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for every part of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. That way, every single Internet site that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other 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 high performance all the time and irrespective of the nature of your sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both lowers the load and ensures the fantastic performance of all Internet sites which load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased considering that there will be considerably less reading and writing processes on them.