A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to store information. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're considerably faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the site content that is accessed more often will be located on this type of drives, while all the other content will be located on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers so as to offer improved loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, any content that you upload to your cloud hosting account will be reachable very fast. To boost the performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs that work only as cache - our system saves frequently accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We take advantage of this kind of a configuration to make sure that multi-media loaded Internet sites will not affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span will be longer, that's one more guarantee for the security and stability of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a number of heavy websites that generate a large amount of reading and writing processes will not influence the other Internet sites which share the same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage disks and lower the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of protection for your site content.