A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every application running on it compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk features 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 also differ, lots of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing price and effectiveness. An Internet hosting service provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are used regularly will be saved on such a drive for achieving improved loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new messages with webmail, the content will load very quickly. To offer even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All the content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve that way apart from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus reduced probability of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the primary drives, which is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load quickly as we use SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and emails. Considering that some people may host sites that are more popular than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system discovers any content that is loaded more frequently and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the websites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the chance of disk failures.