A solid-state drive is incredibly faster than any regular hard-disk drive. It is because a hard-disk drive uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they become, whereas an SDD takes advantage of modules of flash memory, so there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this sort of drives the best solution every time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for saving data which is accessed repeatedly on servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use one or more SSDs in order to cache the more often used data and consequently, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks need to spin less often to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared web hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will load very 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 quickly. So as to offer even higher speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better performance. What we achieve by doing this except for the better speed is reduced overall load, thus lower probability of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very quickly. We use dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a number of heavy websites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes can't impact the other sites which share the very same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage disks and reduce the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of protection for your website content.