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 pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they're faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and may cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all other content will be kept on standard HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

The cloud platform where we create hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you load a page or check for new email messages through webmail, the content will load right away. To ensure even higher speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function 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 main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve in this way in addition to the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus lower probability of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mails. This way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a few heavy Internet sites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other Internet sites that share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of stability for your content.