A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store info. The SSDs remain relatively new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they're much faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and could cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content that is accessed more often will be located on such drives, while all the other content will be stored on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

Our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you acquire any of our cloud hosting packages, you will benefit from the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and emails will all open from quick SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching solid-state drives. Multiple drives are used by our system for each file that is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can provide fantastic performance for all websites no matter how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load extremely fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is copied automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a number of heavy Internet sites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other websites which share the same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage drives and reduce the potential for a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of security for your site content.