A solid-state drive is noticeably quicker than any conventional hard-disk drive. The reason is that a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they get, whereas an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there are no physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes these drives an ideal solution if speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for keeping data which is used frequently on web servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on hard-disks, but they use one or more solid-state drives so as to cache the more often used data and for that reason, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks have to spin less frequently in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting
If you host your sites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your websites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates increased traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the chance of a disk failure, that is one more guarantee for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load amazingly quickly since we employ SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some people may host Internet sites which can be more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system detects all of the content which is loaded more regularly and copies it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the websites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the chance of disk failures.