A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save info. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're considerably faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content which is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all the other content will be held on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price 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 make hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new e-mail messages through webmail, the content will load right away. In order to offer even higher speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All of the content that generates a lot 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 performance. What we achieve in this way apart from the better speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced possibility of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and e-mail messages. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very quickly. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a couple of heavy Internet sites which generate plenty of reading and writing processes will not influence the other Internet sites which share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage drives and lower the chance of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of protection for your website content.