A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to store information. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on such drives, while all other content will be kept on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new e-mails with webmail, the content will load very quickly. To ensure even greater speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All of the content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve in this way except for the better speed is reduced overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are created on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load quickly as we use SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. As some users may host websites that can be more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system discovers all of the content that is accessed more regularly and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the possibility of disk failures.