A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save info. The SSDs are still fairly new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and can even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Most companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content that is accessed more often will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be held on standard HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
The cloud platform where we create cloud hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new emails through webmail, the content will load without delay. So as to offer even better speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All the content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve in this way aside from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus lower chance of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a number of heavy sites which generate plenty of reading and writing processes won't impact the other sites that share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage drives and lower the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of stability for your content.