A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save data. The SSDs are still fairly new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be stored on standard HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
The cloud platform where we make shared hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new email messages with webmail, the content will load right away. So as to offer even better speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve by doing this except for the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus decreased possibility of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mail messages. This way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load extremely fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy Internet sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes will not influence the other sites that share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage disks and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of stability for your content.