A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store data. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are much faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content that is accessed more often will be stored on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be held on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their website hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we create website hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mail messages using webmail, the content will load instantly. So as to offer even better speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. Any content that 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 better performance. What we achieve by doing this aside from the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus lower chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want speed and top-notch performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a really suitable solution since they're created on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for every part of the service - emails, databases and files. That way, every single site that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the good performance at all times and irrespective of the type of your Internet sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and any frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both lowers the load and ensures the good performance of all websites which load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased since there will be considerably less reading and writing processes on them.