A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to store information. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're much faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and can cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Many companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all content which is accessed more often will be located on such drives, while all the other content will be stored on standard HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

We use only SSDs on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on the production servers as to offer better loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. That way, all the content you upload to your cloud hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. In order to boost the performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which work only as cache - our system stores frequently accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We employ such a setup to ensure that traffic-intensive sites will never affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan will be longer, that is one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your information.