A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to store info. The SSDs remain relatively new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all content which is accessed more often will be held on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

The cloud platform where we create hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new email messages with webmail, the content will load promptly. In order to offer even higher speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. Any 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 much better efficiency. What we achieve by doing this apart from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load quickly as we use SSDs for each aspect of the service - files, databases and emails. Considering that some people may host websites which are more popular than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system finds all the content that is accessed more regularly and copies it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the rest of the Internet sites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the potential for disk failures.