A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each application running on it when compared to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs a number of interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk features spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two types of drives also differ, a large number of personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, this way balancing cost and effectiveness. A website hosting service provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are used very often will be saved on this type of a drive for achieving improved loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
Our modern cloud website hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you acquire any of our shared hosting plans, you can benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and emails will all open from quick SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. Multiple drives are used by our system for every file that is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can provide perfect performance for all types of sites no matter how many times they're accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are generated on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your websites will load amazingly quickly since we employ SSDs for all aspects of the service - files, databases and emails. As some people may host Internet sites that are more frequently visited than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system detects any content which is loaded more often and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the websites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the chance of disk failures.