A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store info. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are considerably faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content that is accessed more often will be located on this type of drives, while all the other content will be stored on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so if you buy any of our cloud hosting solutions, you can take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and e-mails will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can provide fantastic performance for all Internet sites irrespective of how often they are accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.