A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save info. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they're much faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and can even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Numerous companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content that is accessed more frequently will be located on this type of drives, while all the other content will be stored on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our top-notch cloud hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers in order to provide better loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, any content which you upload to your shared hosting account will be accessible very quickly. In order to improve the performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which function exclusively as cache - our system stores routinely accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We use such a setup to make sure that multi-media heavy Internet sites do not influence the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, which is one more warranty for the security and integrity of your data.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want speed and fantastic performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a really suitable solution as they're created on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each part of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. This way, every single website that you host here will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the good performance at all times and irrespective of the nature of your websites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both lowers the load and provides the excellent performance of all sites that load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased as there'll be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.