A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store information. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are considerably faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and could cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all the other content will be kept on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their web hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use only SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers so as to ensure lightning-fast loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, all the content you upload to your shared hosting account will be reachable very quickly. To enhance the performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs which function only as cache - our system stores often accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We use such a configuration to ensure that resource-demanding sites don't affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the security and stability of your information.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load extremely fast because we use SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some people may host Internet sites which can be more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system finds all the content that is accessed more frequently and duplicates it on these drives in order 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 influence the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the chance of disk failures.