A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to store data. The SSDs are still relatively new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're considerably faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content that is accessed more often will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be stored on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost 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 Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create web hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new e-mails with webmail, the content will load very quickly. In order to offer even higher speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve in this way aside from the better speed is lowered overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and email messages. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a few heavy websites which generate a large amount of reading and writing processes won't impact the other sites which share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage drives and lower the chance of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of stability for your site content.