A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to store information. The SSDs remain fairly new and more expensive when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're considerably faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content which is accessed more frequently will be held on such drives, while all the other content will be located on regular HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mail messages using webmail, the content will load instantly. In order to offer even higher speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. Any content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better performance. What we achieve by doing this in addition to the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, which is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load very quickly because we use SSDs for each aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some people may host Internet sites that can be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system finds all the content which is loaded more regularly and copies it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not affect the performance of the other websites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the probability of disk failures.