A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to store data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are considerably faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and web servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and could cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any content which is accessed more often will be held on this kind of drives, while all other content will be stored on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our top-notch cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on the production servers as to provide better loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, all of the content you upload to your cloud website hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to enhance the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs which work only as cache - our system stores routinely accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We employ this type of a setup to ensure that traffic-intensive sites will not affect the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. What's more, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, that is one more warranty for the safety and stability of your data.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load very quickly because we use SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some customers may host websites which are more popular than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system finds all the content which is loaded more often and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the other Internet sites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.