A solid-state drive is substantially faster than any standard hard disk. The reason is that an HDD works by using rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, at the same time an SDD works with modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this kind of drives an ideal solution when speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a computer system and for saving data that's used regularly on web servers. Many service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on hard drives, but they use one or more solid-state drives in order to cache the more often used data and for that reason, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered as their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static 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 messages with webmail, the content will load promptly. In order to ensure even greater speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All the content that 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 improved performance. What we achieve this way except for the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus reduced potential for hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are created on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load amazingly quickly as we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. As some people may host sites which are more frequently visited than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system identifies all the content that is accessed more often and duplicates it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the possibility of disk failures.