A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it as compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk employs spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the prices of the two types of drives also differ, many PCs and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, in this way balancing cost and overall performance. A hosting provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are used frequently will be located on such a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mails with webmail, the content will load immediately. To ensure even greater speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. Any content that generates lots 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 better performance. What we achieve in this way in addition to the better speed is reduced overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, which is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are generated on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load quickly because we use SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and emails. As some people may host websites which could be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system detects any content which is accessed more often and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the Internet sites that are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.