A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to store data. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are much faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and web servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Lots of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so any content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on such drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
Our innovative cloud web hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our shared web hosting solutions, you'll take full advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all open from fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we use caching solid-state drives. Multiple drives are used by our system for any file that's accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can guarantee excellent performance for all types of Internet sites no matter how many times they are accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you need speed and high-end performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a very suitable solution as they're made on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each part of the service - email addresses, databases and files. This way, each and every website that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the good performance at all times and irrespective of the type of your Internet sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both reduces the load and provides the excellent performance of all Internet sites that load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased as there'll be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.