A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each application running on it in comparison to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk functions with spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives also differ, numerous computer systems and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and an HDD for data storage, this way balancing cost and overall performance. A hosting provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files which are used repeatedly will be located on such a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our advanced cloud web hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on the production servers in order to provide outstanding loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, all the content that you upload to your shared hosting account will be reachable very fast. To boost the performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that work exclusively as cache - our system saves often accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We take advantage of such a configuration to ensure that resource-demanding sites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. What's more, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more warranty for the security and integrity of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load extremely fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy websites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes can't influence the other Internet sites which share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage disks and lower the possibility of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of protection for your content.