A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save info. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're much faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and can even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content that is accessed more frequently will be located on such drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use only SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers as to offer better loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all the content which you upload to your shared hosting account will be accessible very fast. In order to improve the performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that function only as cache - our system saves frequently accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We take advantage of this type of a setup to make sure that multi-media heavy sites will never influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, which is one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your information.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll store 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. This way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very quickly. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a few heavy sites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other sites which share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of security for your website content.