A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to save info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and can cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all the other content will be kept on standard HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their web hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

We use only SSDs on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers in order to offer outstanding loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, all of the content you upload to your cloud hosting account will be reachable very quickly. In order to boost the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that function only as cache - our system stores frequently accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We employ such a configuration to make sure that traffic-intensive sites do not influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan shall be longer, that is one more warranty for the security and stability of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very quickly. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a couple of heavy sites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other websites that share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and decrease the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of security for your content.