A solid-state drive is really faster than any standard hard-disk drive. The reason is that an HDD uses rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, while an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, hence there are no actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes these drives a preferred solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a personal computer and for saving data which is accessed frequently on servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard-disks, but they use several SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and for that reason, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks have 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 open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new email messages with webmail, the content will load instantly. So as to ensure even greater speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve this way in addition to the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security 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 that uses solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load extremely fast as we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some customers may host Internet sites that could be more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system discovers all of the content that is loaded more often and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the websites that are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and decreases the probability of disk failures.