A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save data. The SSDs remain relatively new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're considerably faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Many companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all other content will be located on regular HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their web hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting
In case you host your websites in a cloud web hosting account with us, you'll notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Together with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your Internet sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the potential for a disk failure, which is one more warranty for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are generated on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your websites will load amazingly quickly because we employ SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and emails. As some users may host Internet sites which could be more popular than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system finds all of the content that is accessed more regularly and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the sites that are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and decreases the possibility of disk failures.