A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save data. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are much faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and can even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Lots of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any content that is accessed more often will be held on this type of drives, while all other content will be held on standard HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
Our top-notch cloud hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so if you buy any of our shared web hosting plans, you will benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and email messages will all open from extremely fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for any file that's accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can guarantee perfect performance for all types of Internet sites no matter how often they're accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.