A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save information. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all 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 hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting
We use exclusively SSDs on our advanced cloud web hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers so as to ensure outstanding loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. That way, all the content that you upload to your shared website hosting account will be accessible very quickly. In order to boost the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs that function solely as cache - our system saves regularly accessed content on them and updates it without delay. We take advantage of this kind of a setup to make sure that resource-demanding Internet sites do 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 that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, which is one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and email messages. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees extremely fast loading speed for every web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the sites of one customer will not affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system discovers files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all of the drives, ensure their extended life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable website hosting service.