A solid-state drive is significantly quicker than any conventional hard-disk drive. The reason is that an HDD works by using rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, at the same time an SDD works with modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this type of drives the best solution any time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for keeping data that is used repeatedly on web servers. Many service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on hard disk drives, but they use a couple of SSDs to cache the more often used data and because of that, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered since their disks have to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
Our innovative cloud website hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so in case you go for any of our shared web hosting plans, you will take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and emails will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for each file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can guarantee excellent performance for all kinds of sites regardless of how frequently they are accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you register for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and email messages. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load amazingly quickly. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a few heavy sites that generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes can't influence the other sites that share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage disks and decrease the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of protection for your website content.