A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save data. The SSDs remain relatively new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and could cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content that is accessed more often will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be held on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting
Our modern cloud Internet hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so in case you get any of our web hosting packages, you'll take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and emails will all load from fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for every file that is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can guarantee fantastic performance for all types of websites no matter how many times they are accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you register for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we will keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the 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 sure that a couple of heavy Internet sites that generate a large amount of reading and writing processes can't impact the other sites which share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage drives and decrease the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of security for your website content.