A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store data. The SSDs remain relatively new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Many companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on such drives, while all other content will be kept on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make web hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new messages using webmail, the content will load quickly. To offer even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All the content that generates lots 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 that way except for the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you need speed and high-end performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a very suitable solution because they are created on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for each part of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. That way, every Internet site that you host here will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the top performance at all times and whatever the nature of your sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both reduces the load and guarantees the good performance of all websites that load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased as there will be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.