A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, a large number of personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, thus balancing price and overall performance. A website hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are accessed very often will be held on such a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

Our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform uses only SSD drives, so in case you obtain any of our shared website hosting solutions, you will take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from fast SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for every file that is accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can guarantee fantastic performance for all kinds of sites regardless of how often they're accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you need speed and top-notch performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a really suitable solution as they are created on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each part of the service - email addresses, databases and files. That way, each site that you host here will load fast. Just like other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you'll be able to take advantage of the top-notch performance all of the time and regardless of the type of your websites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both lowers the load and guarantees the excellent performance of all websites which load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased as there will be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.