A solid-state drive is noticeably quicker than any standard hard disk. The reason is that a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, whereas an SDD works with modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are considerably higher, which makes these drives the right solution in case speed is needed. That's why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a home PC and for storing data which is accessed often on web servers. A large number of providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard drives, but they use one or more solid-state drives so as to cache the more frequently used data and as a consequence, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud web hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new email messages using webmail, the content will load right away. In order to offer even greater speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve this way in addition to the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased possibility of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that's 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 provide are generated on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load very fast because we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some customers may host websites which are more popular than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system discovers all of the content that is loaded more frequently and duplicates it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the chance of disk failures.