A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store info. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're much faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and can cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Most companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all the other content will be held on regular HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their website hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new messages with webmail, the content will load without delay. In order to ensure even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All the content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve by doing this aside from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus reduced probability of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load very quickly since we employ SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some customers may host sites that are more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system discovers all of the content which is accessed more frequently and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the other Internet sites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the possibility of disk failures.