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 than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both personal computers and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and could cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content which is accessed more often will be held on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their website hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so if you acquire any of our hosting packages, you can take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all open from fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. Multiple drives are used by our system for each file that is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can ensure fantastic performance for all Internet sites no matter how frequently they are accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load quickly since we employ SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and emails. As some customers may host sites that could be more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system identifies all the content which is loaded more regularly and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the possibility of disk failures.