A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save data. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are considerably faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
We use only SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on the production servers as to provide lightning-fast loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. That way, all the content you upload to your shared hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. To boost the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs that work only as cache - our system saves frequently accessed content on them and updates it without delay. We take advantage of this kind of a setup to guarantee that resource-demanding sites will not affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your information.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and email messages. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load extremely fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a number of heavy Internet sites which generate a large amount of reading and writing processes won't affect the other sites that share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of protection for your website content.