A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to store information. The SSDs are still relatively new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Many companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be kept on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their web hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
Our innovative cloud website hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our shared hosting packages, you will take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can ensure perfect performance for all sorts of Internet sites irrespective of how often they are accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a couple of heavy Internet sites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes won't affect the other websites that share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and lower the potential for a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of stability for your site content.