A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store data. The SSDs remain relatively new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're considerably faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and may cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so any content that is accessed more frequently will be held on such drives, while all other content will be kept on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting
In case you host your websites in a web hosting account from us, you will definitely notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your Internet sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, that is another warranty for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and email messages. Along with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees extremely fast loading speed for every web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the Internet sites of one user will not affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system finds files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all drives, warrant their extended lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a fast and reliable web hosting service.