A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to store information. The SSDs are still relatively new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're considerably faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the content which is accessed more often will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be located on regular HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use only SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on our production servers so as to offer outstanding loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, all the content you upload to your shared hosting account will be accessible very fast. In order to enhance the performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that function solely as cache - our system stores regularly accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We employ this type of a configuration to guarantee that multi-media loaded Internet sites do not affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, which is one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your info.