A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of any app running on it as compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD features spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives also differ, a large number of computer systems and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and an HDD for data storage, in this way balancing price and effectiveness. A website hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are used frequently will be stored on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on the production servers as to ensure improved loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, all the content which you upload to your web hosting account will be accessible very fast. To boost the performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs which work solely as cache - our system stores regularly accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We employ this kind of a setup to ensure that resource-demanding sites will not affect the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, that's one more warranty for the security and integrity of your data.