A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're considerably faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Most companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be kept on standard HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting
Our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so in case you go for any of our website hosting packages, you'll benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and emails will all load from ultra fast SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching solid-state drives. A number of drives are used by our system for each file that is accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can ensure fantastic performance for all websites no matter how many times they're accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mails. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees lightning-fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the sites of one user will not affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all drives, warrant their extended life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a quick and reliable website hosting service.