A solid-state drive is noticeably faster than any normal hard-disk drive. This is because a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, while an SDD employs modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this type of drives a recommended solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for keeping data that is accessed regularly on web servers. Many providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of solid-state drives so as to cache the more often used data and due to this fact, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks have to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

Our modern cloud website hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so in case you get any of our hosting solutions, you can take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and e-mail 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 each file which is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can ensure exceptional performance for all kinds of Internet sites no matter how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and email messages. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load extremely fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a few heavy sites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not affect the other websites which share the same drive. By reducing the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the possibility of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of stability for your content.