A solid-state drive is substantially faster than any regular hard disk. This is because an HDD works by using spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, while an SDD uses modules of flash memory, so there are no actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this kind of drives the best solution when speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for storing data that is accessed regularly on web servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard disk drives, but they use a couple of solid-state drives in order to cache the more often used data and because of this, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

Our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform uses only SSD drives, so in case you get any of our shared web hosting solutions, you can benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for each file that's accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to ensure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is reduced, so we can provide excellent performance for all sorts of sites no matter how often they are accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and emails. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a couple of heavy Internet sites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes will not affect the other sites which share the very same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and lower the chance of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your website content.