A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save info. The SSDs remain relatively new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're considerably faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and web servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and could cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be kept on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their website 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 cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on the 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 you upload to your shared hosting account will be accessible very fast. In order to enhance the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs that function solely as cache - our system saves often accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We employ this kind of a setup to make sure that multi-media loaded sites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan will be longer, that's one more warranty for the safety and stability of your information.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and e-mails. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very quickly. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes shall not affect the other websites which share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and decrease the potential for a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of protection for your content.