A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save info. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Lots of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content which is accessed more often will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be held on conventional HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud website hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new messages using webmail, the content will load immediately. In order to ensure even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. Any content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve that way apart from the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus decreased chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want speed and outstanding performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a very suitable solution as they are made on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for each part of the service - emails, databases and files. This way, each and every Internet site that you host with us will load fast. Just like other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the good performance all of the time and whatever the nature of your Internet sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and any frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both lowers the load and ensures the excellent performance of all Internet sites that load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there will be considerably less reading and writing processes on them.