A solid-state drive is much faster than any conventional hard disk. It 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, at the same time an SDD works with modules of flash memory, so there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes this sort of drives the best solution if speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a PC and for saving data that is accessed repeatedly on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on HDDs, but they use several SSDs in order to cache the more often used data and as a result, the data loads faster 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 Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new e-mails through webmail, the content will load instantly. To offer even higher speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that 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. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve in this way apart from the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you register for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we will save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and email messages. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a couple of heavy websites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes will not affect the other sites which share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of stability for your content.