A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are considerably faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Many 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 kept on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our modern cloud Internet hosting platform uses only SSD drives, so if you go for any of our shared hosting plans, you will take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and e-mails will all open from ultra fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is lowered, so we can ensure exceptional performance for all sorts of websites irrespective of how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a number of heavy websites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes won't impact the other sites that share the same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage drives and lower the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of stability for your website content.