A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are considerably faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A large number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content which is accessed more frequently will be held on such drives, while all other content will be kept on regular HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

We use only SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on the production servers so as to offer outstanding loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, any content that you upload to your shared website hosting account will be accessible very quickly. To enhance the overall performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that work only as cache - our system stores frequently accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We employ this type of a configuration to ensure that traffic-intensive Internet sites don't influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan shall be longer, that's one more warranty for the security and stability of your information.