A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to store info. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content that is accessed more often will be located on such drives, while all other content will be held on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use such a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
We use only SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers as to ensure better loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, all the content which you upload to your hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to enhance the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs which work solely as cache - our system saves often accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We take advantage of this type of a configuration to ensure that multi-media heavy Internet sites do not influence the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span will be longer, which is one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your data.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and emails. This way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a couple of heavy Internet sites that generate a large amount of reading and writing processes will not impact the other Internet sites which share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of protection for your website content.