A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save data. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more expensive when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they are faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content that is accessed more often will be located on such drives, while all the other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their web hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so if you purchase any of our cloud hosting solutions, you will benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mails will all open from high-speed SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is reduced, so we can provide excellent performance for all sorts of Internet sites regardless of how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load extremely fast since we use SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some customers may host websites which could be more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system identifies any content that is accessed more frequently and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the Internet sites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the possibility of disk failures.