A solid-state drive is considerably faster than any standard hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD works by using rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, whereas an SDD employs modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this type of drives the right solution in case speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for storing data that is accessed often on servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard drives, but they use one or more SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and as a consequence, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered since their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new emails using webmail, the content will load very quickly. To ensure even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All of the content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve by doing this aside from the better speed is reduced overall load, thus decreased probability of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, that's 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 sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load extremely fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a number of heavy sites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other sites that share the same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and decrease the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your website content.