A solid-state drive is significantly faster than any normal hard disk. This is because an HDD uses spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, at the same time an SDD uses modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this kind of drives the best solution any time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a home PC and for storing data which is used frequently on web servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard drives, but they use one or more SSDs in order to cache the more frequently used data and as a consequence, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered since their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new e-mails using webmail, the content will load right away. To ensure even better speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All the content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve that way apart from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus lower chance of hardware failures, and extended 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 Hosting

In case you need speed and top-notch performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a very suitable solution because they're generated on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for all aspects of the service - emails, databases and files. That way, each website that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the high performance all of the time and whatever the nature of your Internet sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both minimizes the load and provides the good performance of all sites which load straight from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there'll be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.