A solid-state drive is substantially faster than any conventional hard disk. The reason is that an HDD employs rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they get, while an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there are no actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this type of drives a recommended solution when speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for keeping data which is accessed frequently on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard drives, but they use one or more SSDs so as to cache the more often used data and due to this fact, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks need to spin less often to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new e-mails through webmail, the content will load immediately. So as to ensure even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve in this way except for the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load extremely fast because we use SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some customers may host sites that could be more frequently visited than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system discovers all the content that is accessed more often and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the websites that are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the potential for disk failures.