A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store info. The SSDs remain relatively new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're much faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and can even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Lots of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content which is accessed more often will be stored on this type of drives, while all the other content will be stored on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use this type 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 Web Hosting

Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so if you purchase any of our cloud web hosting packages, you'll take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching SSDs. 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 traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is reduced, so we can provide exceptional performance for all types of websites irrespective of how frequently they are accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.