A solid-state drive is noticeably faster than any conventional hard disk. This is because an HDD employs spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, while an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this type of drives a recommended solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for saving data that is used regularly on hosting servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on hard disk drives, but they use a couple of solid-state drives to cache the more often used data and because of that, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced because their disks have to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on the production servers as to provide improved loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, all the content that you upload to your web hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. To improve the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that function only as cache - our system stores repeatedly accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We take advantage of this type of a setup to guarantee that multi-media loaded Internet sites will not affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and emails. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load amazingly quickly. We use dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a number of heavy sites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes will not affect the other websites that share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of stability for your content.