A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save info. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both personal computers and servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content that is accessed more frequently will be stored on such drives, while all other content will be stored on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use only SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on our production servers so as to offer outstanding loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, any content you upload to your shared hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. To boost the performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs that work solely as cache - our system stores repeatedly accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We use this type of a configuration to make sure that multi-media loaded Internet sites don't influence the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, that is one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your websites will load amazingly quickly because we use SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and emails. As some users may host Internet sites which could be more popular than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system discovers any content that is loaded more often and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the other sites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and decreases the potential for disk failures.