A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store information. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they are considerably faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and could cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content which is accessed more frequently will be located on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be stored on regular HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
If you host your websites in a cloud hosting account with our company, you will definitely notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your Internet sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates increased traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, which is one more guarantee for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and emails. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load speedily. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a few heavy websites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes will not influence the other sites which share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the possibility of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of security for your content.