A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each app running on it as compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD functions with spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, a lot of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, thus balancing price and overall performance. A web hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are accessed repeatedly will be held on such a drive for achieving improved loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

We use only SSDs on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers so as to ensure improved loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, any content which you upload to your shared web hosting account will be reachable very quickly. To improve the overall performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs which function only as cache - our system saves regularly accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We take advantage of this type of a setup to make sure that traffic-intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your information.