A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to store info. The SSDs are still relatively new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content that is accessed more frequently will be located on this type of drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price 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 Web Hosting
Our top-notch cloud web hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you acquire any of our web hosting plans, you'll take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and e-mails will all open from quick SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for every file that is accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can ensure fantastic performance for all kinds of sites no matter how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you need speed and excellent performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a very suitable solution because they are created on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for each part of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. That way, each and every website that you host here will load fast. Similar to other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the high performance all of the time and whatever the type of your websites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both minimizes the load and ensures the excellent performance of all sites which load directly from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased considering that there'll be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.