A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each application running on it in comparison with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD works by using spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the cost of the two types of drives also differ, lots of desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing price and overall performance. A hosting service provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files which are used on a regular basis will be stored on this type of 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
Our modern cloud website hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so in case you acquire any of our cloud hosting solutions, you'll take full advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and emails will all open from fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. Multiple drives are used by our system for any file which is accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is reduced, so we can ensure exceptional performance for all sites no matter how many times they are accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want speed and high-end performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a very suitable solution as they're made on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for each part of the service - e-mails, databases and files. That way, every single website that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the top-notch performance all of the time and irrespective of the nature of your sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both decreases the load and guarantees the good performance of all Internet sites that load directly from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased since there will be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.