A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any app running on it as compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses many different interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD features spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. As the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, a large number of personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, in this way balancing price and efficiency. An Internet hosting provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are used frequently will be located on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our top-notch cloud web hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on the production servers so as to ensure outstanding loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, any content you upload to your website hosting account will be reachable very quickly. In order to boost the performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs that function exclusively as cache - our system saves frequently accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We use such a setup to ensure that resource-demanding Internet sites will never influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span will be longer, which is one more warranty for the safety and integrity of your data.