A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the site content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be kept on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared website hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new emails through webmail, the content will load promptly. In order to ensure even higher speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All the content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve this way aside from the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus lower potential for 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 which employs exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load extremely fast because we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. As some customers may host Internet sites which are more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system discovers any content that is accessed more regularly and copies it on these drives in order 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 rest of the websites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the chance of disk failures.