A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store information. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they are much faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and can even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all other content will be kept on regular HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

Our innovative cloud hosting platform employs exclusively SSD drives, so in case you acquire any of our cloud hosting solutions, you can take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and emails will all open from ultra fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we use caching solid-state drives. A group of drives are used by our system for each file that is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can provide fantastic performance for all websites irrespective of how often they're accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are created on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load quickly as we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some customers may host Internet sites which can be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system detects all of the content which is accessed more frequently and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the websites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the possibility of disk failures.