A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they are considerably faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content that is accessed more often will be located on such drives, while all the other content will be located on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the price and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
Our modern cloud hosting platform uses only SSD drives, so in case you get any of our cloud hosting solutions, you'll benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from fast SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. Multiple drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is lowered, so we can ensure exceptional performance for all sites no matter how many times they're accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are created on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load very quickly as we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and emails. As some customers may host websites that could be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system discovers all of the content which is loaded 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 ensure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites that are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.