A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save info. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are much faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and web servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Lots of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content which is accessed more often will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be held on standard HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new e-mails with webmail, the content will load right away. In order to ensure even better speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve that way aside from the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load very quickly because we employ SSDs for each aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some users may host Internet sites that could be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system detects any content that is accessed more regularly and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the websites that are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.