A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save info. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're much faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be stored on standard HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their web hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on the production servers as to provide improved loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, all the content that you upload to your shared hosting account will be reachable very quickly. To enhance the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs that work exclusively as cache - our system saves routinely accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We employ this kind of a configuration to make sure that multi-media loaded Internet sites don't influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, given that the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span will be longer, that is one more warranty for the security and integrity of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load extremely fast since we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some customers may host Internet sites that can be more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system detects all the content that is loaded more often and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the websites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and decreases the probability of disk failures.