A solid-state drive is significantly faster than any normal hard-disk drive. This is because a hard-disk drive works by using rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they get, while an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there are no actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are considerably higher, which makes this kind of drives an ideal solution when speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often used for the Operating System on a personal computer and for saving data that's accessed often on servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on HDDs, 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 a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks need to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
In case you host your websites in a cloud hosting account from us, you will notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. In addition to the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will be better. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, that is a further warranty for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and e-mails. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load amazingly quickly. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a number of heavy sites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes can't influence the other websites which share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage drives and lower the possibility of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of security for your website content.