A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store data. The SSDs are still relatively new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are considerably faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content which is accessed more frequently will be located on this type of drives, while all the other content will be kept on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use such 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 Cloud Website Hosting

Our modern cloud Internet hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so if you go for any of our cloud website hosting plans, you can take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all open from extremely fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for each file that's accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can provide fantastic performance for all types of websites regardless of how frequently they are accessed and prevent a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the chance of disk failure.