A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store data. The SSDs remain fairly new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are considerably faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and could cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all the other content will be located on standard HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

We use only SSDs on our top-notch cloud web hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers as to ensure better loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, any content that you upload to your cloud hosting account will be reachable very quickly. In order to enhance the performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs that function exclusively as cache - our system stores frequently accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We take advantage of such a configuration to make sure that multi-media heavy Internet sites do not influence the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other Internet sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span will be longer, that is one more warranty for the safety and stability of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load very quickly as we use SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and emails. As some users may host sites that are more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system detects all the content that 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 guarantee that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the rest of the websites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the potential for disk failures.