A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to store info. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all the content which is accessed more often will be located on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use such a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud web hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mails using webmail, the content will load without delay. In order to ensure even greater speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve in this way aside from the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load extremely fast since we employ SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and email addresses. As some users may host sites that are more popular than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system finds all of the content that is loaded more regularly and duplicates it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the sites that are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the potential for disk failures.