A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any content which is accessed more often will be stored on such drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our modern cloud web hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you buy any of our shared hosting packages, you'll 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 extremely fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for any file that's accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can ensure exceptional performance for all websites regardless of how many times they are accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.