A solid-state drive is substantially quicker than any conventional hard-disk drive. This is because a hard-disk drive employs rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, whereas an SDD employs modules of flash memory, hence there are no physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this kind of drives the right solution any time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for saving data which is accessed often on hosting servers. Numerous providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on hard disk drives, but they use a couple of SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and because of this, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks need to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting
If you host your Internet sites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you'll definitely notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your sites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will improve. The latter subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you register for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we'll store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and email messages. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load extremely fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a couple of heavy Internet sites that generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other sites that share the same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage drives and decrease the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of protection for your content.