A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to store data. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more expensive when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content that is accessed more frequently will be stored on such drives, while all the other content will be located on regular HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

Our innovative cloud hosting platform uses only SSD drives, so if you acquire any of our web hosting solutions, you can take full 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 greater performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A number of drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can provide excellent performance for all sorts of sites no matter how many times they're accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of disk failure.