A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to store info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and could cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content which is accessed more often will be kept on this type of drives, while all the other content will be held on regular HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our advanced cloud hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on the production servers in order to offer lightning-fast loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, any content which you upload to your shared web hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to improve the overall performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs that work exclusively as cache - our system stores repeatedly accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We take advantage of such a configuration to make sure that resource-demanding Internet sites don't influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, which is one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load very fast since we employ SSDs for each aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some users may host Internet sites which could be more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system finds all of the content which is loaded more often and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and decreases the possibility of disk failures.