A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save data. The SSDs remain fairly new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and web servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content that is accessed more frequently will be stored on this type of drives, while all other content will be held on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration 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 Cloud Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new messages using webmail, the content will load quickly. In order to offer even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. Any content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve this way apart from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, 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. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a couple of heavy Internet sites which generate plenty of reading and writing processes shall not influence the other Internet sites that share the same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage drives and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of security for your website content.