A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to store info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content that is accessed more often will be held on this kind 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 price and performance of their website hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
We use only SSDs on our top-notch cloud web hosting platform and we have 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. This way, all the content that you upload to your cloud website hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to boost the performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs which work only 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 multi-media loaded Internet sites will not affect the performance of the other 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, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, that is one more warranty for the safety and integrity of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides extremely fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the Internet sites of one customer don't affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all drives, ensure their extended life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a fast and reliable Internet hosting service.