A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save data. The SSDs remain fairly new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both personal computers and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Many companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all the other content will be located on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

Our modern cloud website hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so if you buy any of our cloud website hosting plans, you will take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and emails will all load from quick SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. Multiple drives are used by our system for any file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can ensure excellent performance for all types of Internet sites irrespective of how often they are accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load quickly because we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some people may host sites which are more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system finds any content that is loaded more regularly and copies it on these drives in order 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 websites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the possibility of disk failures.