A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to save info. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any content that is accessed more frequently will be located on such drives, while all the other content will be stored on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you get any of our shared website hosting plans, you can benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mails will all open from ultra fast SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for every file which is accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can ensure exceptional performance for all sorts of Internet sites no matter how often they're accessed and avoid a situation where some websites 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 decreases the chance of disk failure.