A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it when compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD features spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives also differ, a large number of desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing price and performance. A web hosting service provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files that are used repeatedly will be located on this type of a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on the production servers as to offer better loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, all the content which you upload to your shared hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to improve the performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs which work only as cache - our system stores often accessed content on them and updates it without delay. We use this kind of a configuration to make sure that traffic-intensive sites do not affect 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. What's more, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan shall be longer, which is one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your data.