SSD with Data Caching
What exactly is a solid-state drive (SSD)? What is SSD caching and how does it work? Check out the advantages of hosting your web sites on an SSD-powered server.
A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every app running on it compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses a variety of interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD functions with spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives are also different, a lot of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing price and effectiveness. An Internet hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, so files which are used very often will be kept on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
We use only SSDs on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers as to ensure better loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all of the content which you upload to your cloud hosting account will be reachable very quickly. In order to enhance the overall performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs which function only as cache - our system saves often accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We take advantage of this type of a configuration to ensure that multi-media loaded Internet sites will not affect the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, that is one more warranty for the security and stability of your information.