A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save data. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and web servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and can even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use such a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
The cloud platform where we create shared hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mail messages through webmail, the content will load right away. To ensure even better speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. Any content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve this way in addition to the better speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced probability of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a couple of heavy Internet sites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other Internet sites that share the same drive. By reducing the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and lower the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of protection for your website content.