A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save data. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and could cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content which is accessed more often will be located on this kind of drives, while all other content will be kept on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. This way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very quickly. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a couple of heavy websites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes can't affect the other Internet sites that share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and lower the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your content.