A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save info. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're considerably faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and applications on both personal computers and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as 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 all website content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be stored on conventional HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the price and performance of their website hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

Our modern cloud Internet hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you purchase any of our cloud website hosting solutions, you can take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from quick SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can ensure excellent performance for all types of Internet sites irrespective of how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load amazingly quickly because we employ SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. As some people may host Internet sites that are more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system detects all the content which is accessed more frequently and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and decreases the probability of disk failures.