A solid-state drive is really faster than any regular hard-disk drive. The reason is that an HDD works by using rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they get, whereas an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, so there are no physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes this type of drives the right solution in case speed is needed. That's why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a personal computer and for storing data that is used repeatedly on servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard-disks, but they use a couple of SSDs in order to cache the more often used data and because of that, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new emails through webmail, the content will load immediately. In order to ensure even higher speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All the content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve that way except for the better speed is lowered overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want speed and high-end performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a very suitable solution since they are generated on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each aspect of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. That way, every site that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the top-notch performance all the time and whatever the nature of your Internet sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both minimizes the load and guarantees the optimal performance of all Internet sites that load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there'll be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.