A solid-state drive is substantially quicker than any standard hard-disk drive. This is because a hard-disk drive uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, whereas an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this type of drives a recommended solution every time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for storing data which is accessed repeatedly on hosting servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they store the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of solid-state drives so as to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks need to spin less often in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our modern cloud website hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our shared hosting packages, you'll take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all load from ultra fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A number of drives are used by our system for any file that is accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can guarantee perfect performance for all sorts of websites irrespective of how frequently they are accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load very quickly because we employ SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. As some users may host websites that can be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system detects all of the content that is loaded more frequently and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not influence the performance of the other websites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.