A solid-state drive is much quicker than any conventional hard-disk drive. This is because an HDD uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, at the same time an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there are no actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this kind of drives an ideal solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a PC and for storing data that's used regularly on web servers. Many service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard drives, but they use several solid-state drives in order to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced as their disks have to spin less frequently to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform employs exclusively SSD drives, so in case you go for any of our hosting packages, you can take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mails will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A number of drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can ensure exceptional performance for all sorts of sites irrespective of how frequently they are accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we will save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load extremely fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is copied automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a few heavy Internet sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes won't affect the other Internet sites which share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the potential for a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of security for your website content.