A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save info. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're much faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A number of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any content which is accessed more frequently will be located on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

Our modern cloud website hosting platform uses only SSD drives, so if you acquire any of our website hosting packages, you'll take full advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and e-mails will all load from quick SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for any file that is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can ensure perfect performance for all types of websites no matter how often they're accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you register for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a few heavy websites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes won't affect the other sites which share the same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and lower the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of stability for your site content.