A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any application running on it in comparison to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD features spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. As the cost of the two types of drives are different as well, a lot of computer systems and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing cost and performance. A website hosting provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files which are accessed very often will be located on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you load a page or check for new messages with webmail, the content will load promptly. So as to ensure even better speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All of the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve this way except for the better speed is reduced overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of protection for any info 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 that employs only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load extremely fast as we use SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some users may host Internet sites which can be more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system detects all the content that is accessed more frequently and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not affect the performance of the other Internet sites that are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and decreases the chance of disk failures.