A solid-state drive is much faster than any regular hard-disk drive. This is because an HDD employs rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, whereas an SDD uses modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes this kind of drives a preferred solution every time speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often used for the Operating System on a computer system and for keeping data which is accessed frequently on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard drives, but they use a couple of SSDs to cache the more frequently used data and for that reason, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks need to spin less often to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

We use only SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on our production servers as to offer outstanding loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all of the content that you upload to your cloud web hosting account will be accessible very quickly. In order to enhance the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs that function exclusively as cache - our system saves regularly accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We take advantage of such a configuration to guarantee that traffic-intensive Internet sites will never affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, given that the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan will be longer, that is one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load quickly because we employ SSDs for each aspect of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some users may host Internet sites that can be more popular than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system identifies all the content that is accessed more regularly and copies it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the Internet sites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the chance of disk failures.