A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save information. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're considerably faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and applications on both personal computers and servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on such drives, while all the other content will be held on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared web hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new email messages with webmail, the content will load right away. So as to ensure even higher speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All of the content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve that way apart from the better speed is reduced overall load, thus reduced possibility of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Provided you want speed and outstanding performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a really suitable solution as they are generated on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for all aspects of the service - e-mails, databases and files. This way, each Internet site that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the good performance all the time and whatever the type of your websites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both lowers the load and ensures the optimal performance of all websites that load directly from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased as there'll be considerably less reading and writing processes on them.