A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save information. The SSDs are still fairly new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're much faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content which is accessed more frequently will be located on this type of drives, while all other content will be kept on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
We use only SSDs on our top-notch cloud web hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on our production servers so as to provide outstanding loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, all of the content which you upload to your hosting account will be reachable very quickly. In order to enhance the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs that work exclusively as cache - our system saves repeatedly accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We take advantage of this kind of a setup to make sure that multi-media heavy sites do not influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span will be longer, that is one more warranty for the safety and integrity of your data.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a few heavy sites that generate a large amount of reading and writing processes can't influence the other websites which share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of stability for your content.