A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save info. The SSDs are still relatively new and more expensive when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they are faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and web servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content which is accessed more often will be kept on this type of drives, while all the other content will be kept on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you need speed and outstanding performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a really suitable solution since they are generated on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for all aspects of the service - email addresses, databases and files. This way, each and every website that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you'll be able to take advantage of the top-notch performance at all times and whatever the type of your sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both minimizes the load and guarantees the fantastic performance of all Internet sites which load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there will be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.