A solid-state drive is noticeably faster than any regular hard disk. This is because a hard-disk drive employs rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, whereas an SDD takes advantage of modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes this kind of drives an ideal solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases used for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for storing data that's accessed often on servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on HDDs, but they use one or more solid-state drives in order to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks need to spin less often in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud website hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new emails through webmail, the content will load instantly. To ensure even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All the content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve this way aside from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load extremely fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a number of heavy sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes can't impact the other Internet sites that share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage disks and reduce the potential for a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of security for your website content.