A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save information. The SSDs are still fairly new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are much faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and web servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and can even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content that is accessed more frequently will be located on such drives, while all the other content will be stored on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our top-notch cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers as to offer improved loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, any content you upload to your hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to boost the overall performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that function solely as cache - our system stores often accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We use this type of a setup to ensure that resource-demanding sites don't affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span will be longer, which is one more warranty for the safety and integrity of your information.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load extremely fast because we employ SSDs for each aspect of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some people may host Internet sites that can be more popular than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system finds any content which is loaded more regularly and duplicates 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 sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the Internet sites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the chance of disk failures.