SSD with Data Caching
What exactly is a solid-state drive (SSD)? What is SSD caching and how does it work? Discover the advantages of hosting your Internet sites on an SSD-powered server.
A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store data. The SSDs remain fairly new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content which is accessed more frequently will be held on such drives, while all the other content will be kept on ordinary HDDs. The main 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 caused by countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want speed and outstanding performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a very suitable solution as they are created on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for each aspect of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. This way, each and every Internet site that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the high performance all of the time and irrespective of the type of your Internet sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both decreases the load and ensures the optimal performance of all sites which load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there'll be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.
