A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and can even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Numerous companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content that is accessed more often will be stored on this type of drives, while all the other content will be held on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of 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 intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared web hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new emails through webmail, the content will load instantly. So as to offer even higher speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve in this way in addition to the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus lower probability of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you need speed and high-end performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a really suitable solution as they are generated on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each aspect of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. That way, each website that you host with us will load fast. Just like other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the high performance all of the time and regardless of the nature of your Internet sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both lowers the load and ensures the optimal performance of all Internet sites which load directly from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased since there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.