A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be held on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

We use only SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers in order to provide improved loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all the content that you upload to your website hosting account will be accessible very quickly. In order to boost the performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs that function solely as cache - our system stores frequently accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We use such a configuration to make sure that resource-demanding Internet sites do not influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, that's one more warranty for the safety and stability of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load extremely fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a number of heavy sites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes can't influence the other websites that share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage disks and lower the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your website content.