A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store info. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're much faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A number of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the site content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all the other content will be stored on standard HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make website hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new e-mail messages with webmail, the content will load immediately. So as to ensure even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve by doing this except for the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus reduced possibility of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, which is one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are created on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load very quickly since we use SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some customers may host websites that could be more frequently visited than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system identifies any content which is accessed more often and duplicates it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not influence the performance of the other websites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and decreases the chance of disk failures.