A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to store data. The SSDs remain relatively new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are considerably faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and could cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Lots of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content that is accessed more often will be located on this type of drives, while all the other content will be located on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

We use only SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers so as to ensure outstanding loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. That way, all of the content which you upload to your cloud website hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to improve the overall performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs which function solely as cache - our system saves repeatedly accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We use this type of a setup to ensure that resource-demanding Internet sites do not affect the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites 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 will be longer, that is one more warranty for the security and integrity of your information.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and email messages. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy sites which generate a large amount of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other Internet sites which share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage disks and decrease the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of security for your site content.