A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save information. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're considerably faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Lots of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content that is accessed more frequently will be located on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be kept on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting
In case you host your sites in a website hosting account from us, you'll definitely notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your sites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very quickly. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that several heavy websites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes shall not influence the other Internet sites that share the same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage disks and decrease the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of stability for your site content.