A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store info. The SSDs are still relatively new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and applications on both personal computers and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Most companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on this type of drives, while all other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new messages with webmail, the content will load right away. To offer even better speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve in this way in addition to the better speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased possibility of hardware failures, and longer 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 Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load extremely fast because we use SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some people may host websites that are more frequently visited than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system detects all of the content that is loaded more often and copies it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive websites will not influence the performance of the rest of the websites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the possibility of disk failures.