A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store data. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are considerably faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all content that is accessed more frequently will be stored on such drives, while all 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 reduce the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

Our modern cloud website hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so in case you purchase any of our cloud website hosting packages, you can benefit from the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and emails will all open from fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for each file that's accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can guarantee exceptional performance for all types of websites irrespective of how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites 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 chance of disk failure.