A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save information. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are considerably faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content which is accessed more often will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be kept on conventional HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their web hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new e-mail messages using webmail, the content will load immediately. In order to offer even greater speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All of the content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better performance. What we achieve in this way in addition to the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased probability of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.