A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save information. The SSDs are still relatively new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Many companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content that is accessed more often will be located on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
We use only SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on the production servers so as to offer lightning-fast loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, all the content which you upload to your hosting account will be accessible very quickly. To improve the performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that function only as cache - our system stores routinely accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We employ this kind of a setup to ensure that resource-demanding sites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan will be longer, that's one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load very quickly since we use SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some users may host websites that are more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system detects all the content which is accessed more frequently and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not influence the performance of the other websites that are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.