A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to store info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on this kind of drives, while all other content will be kept on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on the production servers in order to offer lightning-fast loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, any content which you upload to your shared web hosting account will be reachable very quickly. In order to improve the overall performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs that work only as cache - our system saves regularly accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We use this type of a configuration to guarantee that multi-media heavy Internet sites will never influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, given that the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the security and stability of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your websites will load amazingly quickly because we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some people may host Internet sites which are more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system identifies all of the content that is accessed more often and duplicates 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 Internet sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites that are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the potential for disk failures.