A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save info. The SSDs are still relatively new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and could cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A lot of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content that is accessed more frequently will be held on such drives, while all the other content will be stored on regular HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our top-notch cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers in order to offer improved loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, any content which you upload to your shared website hosting account will be reachable very fast. In order to boost the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that work only as cache - our system saves repeatedly accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We use this type of a configuration to make sure that resource-demanding Internet sites do not influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. What's more, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span will be longer, that is one more warranty for the safety and stability of your information.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Together with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides very fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one customer will not affect the ones of another, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system identifies 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, guarantee their extended life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a fast and reliable Internet hosting service.