A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they are faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Many companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any content which is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all other content will be stored on regular HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

We use only SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers so as to provide lightning-fast loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, all of the content that you upload to your shared website hosting account will be reachable very fast. In order to improve the performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs that work solely as cache - our system stores regularly accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We use such a setup to guarantee that resource-demanding Internet sites don't influence the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, given that the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, which is one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a couple of heavy Internet sites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes can't affect the other Internet sites that share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and lower the chance of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of stability for your content.