A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save info. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and could cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content which is accessed more often will be located on such drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
Our top-notch cloud web hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so in case you buy any of our hosting packages, you'll benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from high-speed SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A group of drives are used by our system for any file which is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can provide fantastic performance for all sorts of Internet sites no matter how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Provided you want speed and outstanding performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a really suitable solution as they're generated on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for all aspects of the service - e-mails, databases and files. That way, each and every website that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the top performance at all times and irrespective of the type of your sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both minimizes the load and ensures the fantastic performance of all websites that load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased as there'll be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.