A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save information. The SSDs are still fairly new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and could cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A large number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content that is accessed more frequently will be held on such drives, while all the other content will be held on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their website hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared website hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites 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 messages with webmail, the content will load right away. To offer even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. Any content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better performance. What we achieve that way aside from the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the primary drives, which is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want speed and fantastic performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a very suitable solution because they're created on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for each part of the service - email addresses, databases and files. That way, each and every website that you host here will load fast. Similar to other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the good performance all the time and irrespective of the nature of your sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both reduces the load and guarantees the optimal performance of all websites that load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased as there'll be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.