A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any application running on it compared to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives are different as well, many PCs and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for data storage, thus balancing cost and effectiveness. A website hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are accessed on a regular basis will be held on this type of a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers in order to provide outstanding loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, any content you upload to your shared hosting account will be reachable very quickly. To improve the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which work solely as cache - our system saves routinely accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We employ this type of a setup to guarantee that traffic-intensive sites will not affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the security and stability of your data.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load quickly as we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. As some users may host websites which can be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system discovers all the content which is accessed more frequently and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the other sites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the possibility of disk failures.