A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to store data. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Many companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content which is accessed more often will be stored on this type of drives, while all other content will be located on regular HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers so as to offer outstanding loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, all of the content you upload to your hosting account will be reachable very fast. In order to boost the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which function exclusively as cache - our system stores repeatedly accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We employ such a configuration to ensure that multi-media loaded sites will never influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span shall be longer, that's one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your data.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy websites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not affect the other websites that share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage drives and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of security for your site content.