A solid-state drive is really faster than any standard hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD uses spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they become, at the same time an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are considerably higher, which makes this type of drives a recommended solution every time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a home PC and for storing data that is accessed frequently on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of solid-state drives in order to cache the more often used data and because of this, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is lowered as their disks need to spin less often to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
We use exclusively SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on the production servers in order to provide better loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, all the content which you upload to your cloud website hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. To improve the performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs that work solely as cache - our system saves routinely accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We take advantage of such a configuration to make sure that traffic-intensive sites will never influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a couple of heavy websites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes won't impact the other Internet sites that share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage drives and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of protection for your content.