A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to store information. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're much faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be stored on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on the production servers in order to ensure improved loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, any content which you upload to your shared website hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to improve the performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs which work only as cache - our system stores often accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We employ such a setup to guarantee that traffic-intensive sites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span will be longer, which is one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your information.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want speed and excellent performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a really suitable solution because they're created on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for each aspect of the service - emails, databases and files. This way, each and every website that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the good performance all of the time and regardless of the nature of your sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and any frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both minimizes the load and provides the optimal performance of all Internet sites which load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased as there'll be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.