A solid-state drive is significantly faster than any normal hard-disk drive. The reason is that a hard-disk drive employs rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data 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 are no actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are considerably higher, which makes this sort of drives a recommended solution every time speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for saving data that is used frequently on servers. Numerous providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use one or more solid-state drives in order to cache the more frequently used data and because of this, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks have to spin less often to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting
Our innovative cloud web hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so if you purchase any of our web hosting plans, you can take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for every file that is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can provide excellent performance for all Internet sites regardless of how frequently they're accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites 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 chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that several heavy sites that generate a large amount of reading and writing processes can't influence the other sites that share the same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage disks and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of protection for your site content.