A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store data. The SSDs remain fairly new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they're faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both personal computers and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on this type of drives, while all other content will be located on regular HDDs. The main reason to use such a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their web hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

The cloud platform where we create hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mails using webmail, the content will load right away. So as to ensure even higher speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. Any content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve this way except for the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus reduced probability of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load very quickly as we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some customers may host Internet sites which can be more frequently visited than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system finds any content that is loaded more often and duplicates it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.