A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're considerably faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and may cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any content which is accessed more often will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be stored on standard HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on the production servers so as to ensure lightning-fast loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, all the content you upload to your shared web hosting account will be accessible very fast. In order to boost the performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that work only as cache - our system saves routinely accessed content on them and updates it without delay. We use this type of a setup to make sure that multi-media heavy Internet sites will never influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span shall be longer, which is one more warranty for the safety and stability of your data.