A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save information. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content that is accessed more often will be held on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
Our modern cloud web hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so in case you get any of our cloud website hosting solutions, you'll take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all open from high-speed SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can provide exceptional performance for all websites regardless of how often they're accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
Provided you want speed and high-end performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a very suitable solution since they're generated on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for each part of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. This way, each site that you host here will load fast. Similar to other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the high performance all the time and regardless of the nature of your sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both decreases the load and guarantees the optimal performance of all websites that load straight from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased since there'll be considerably less reading and writing processes on them.