A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store data. The SSDs are still fairly new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're much faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and web servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content which is accessed more frequently will be located on such drives, while all the other content will be located on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our innovative cloud hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so if you get any of our shared hosting plans, you'll benefit from the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and e-mails will all open from extremely fast SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A number of drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can ensure perfect performance for all Internet sites regardless of how frequently they are accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.