A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any app running on it as compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk contains spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives also differ, numerous PCs and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, in this way balancing cost and efficiency. An Internet hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed frequently will be stored on such a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud web hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new e-mail messages through webmail, the content will load without delay. So as to ensure even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. Any content which 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 efficiency. What we achieve in this way in addition to the better speed is reduced overall load, thus decreased chance of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are generated on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load very quickly because we use SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and emails. Considering that some people may host sites which could be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system identifies all of the content that is accessed more regularly and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the other websites that are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the chance of disk failures.