A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save data. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're considerably faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content that is accessed more often will be held on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud website hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new email messages through webmail, the content will load quickly. To ensure even greater speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards 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 this way in addition to the better speed is lowered overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and extended 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 Servers

In case you register for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load extremely fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a couple of heavy sites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes can't impact the other sites that share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the possibility of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of security for your website content.