A solid-state drive is much faster than any regular hard-disk drive. This is because an HDD works by using spinning disks, that 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 takes advantage of modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this sort of drives a recommended solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a PC and for storing data which is used frequently on web servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and due to this fact, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced because their disks have to spin less often to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
Our top-notch cloud web hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you acquire any of our shared hosting plans, you'll benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from ultra fast SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for every file which is accessed often 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 reduced, so we can ensure perfect performance for all sorts of websites regardless of how many times they're accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you register for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a few heavy websites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes can't affect the other websites which share the same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage drives and lower the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of security for your content.