A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to store info. The SSDs remain fairly new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they're considerably faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and web servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A large number of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be kept on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting
If you host your websites in a cloud web hosting account from our company, you will notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your Internet sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates more traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. The latter subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, which is another warranty for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you buy one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mails. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures lightning-fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the Internet sites of one customer won't affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all the drives, ensure their extended lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a super fast and reliable Internet hosting service.