SSD with Data Caching
What exactly is a solid-state drive (SSD)? What is SSD caching and how does it work? Discover the key advantages of hosting your Internet sites on an SSD-powered server.
A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to save information. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are considerably faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and web servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.
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SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
Our innovative cloud hosting platform employs exclusively SSD drives, so in case you obtain any of our
cloud hosting solutions, you'll take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all open from fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for each 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 main drives is lowered, so we can ensure fantastic performance for all kinds of sites irrespective of how frequently they are accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.
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SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you buy one of our
semi-dedicated server packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and email messages. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user don't affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system finds files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their long lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a quick and reliable Internet hosting service.