A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every app running on it as compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, a large number of PCs and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for data storage, thus balancing price and overall performance. A website hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are accessed very often will be saved on such a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
The cloud platform where we make shared web hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new e-mail messages with webmail, the content will load without delay. So as to ensure even greater speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve by doing this in addition to the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced probability of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want speed and fantastic performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a really suitable solution since they're generated on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each part of the service - emails, databases and files. That way, every Internet site that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you'll be able to take advantage of the top-notch performance all of the time and whatever the type of your sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both minimizes the load and provides the optimal performance of all Internet sites that load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased since there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.