A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save data. The SSDs are still relatively new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're much faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and could cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Most companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all other content will be kept on standard HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting
We use exclusively SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers so as to offer lightning-fast loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, any content that you upload to your website hosting account will be reachable very quickly. In order to boost the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs that work solely as cache - our system saves often accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We use this type of a setup to make sure that multi-media loaded Internet sites do not affect the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, given that the load on the main drives is decreased, their life-span will be longer, that's one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your information.