A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store info. The SSDs are still fairly new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are considerably faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content which is accessed more often will be located on such drives, while all other content will be held on standard HDDs. The reason to use this kind 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 countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers so as to provide improved loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, any content that you upload to your web hosting account will be accessible very fast. In order to improve the performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs that work solely as cache - our system saves repeatedly accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We take advantage of such a configuration to guarantee that multi-media loaded sites don't affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more warranty for the security and stability of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very quickly. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a couple of heavy Internet sites that generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes won't influence the other Internet sites that share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage disks and decrease the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of security for your website content.