A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it as compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the prices of the two kinds of drives also differ, numerous computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, this way balancing price and performance. An Internet hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are accessed repeatedly will be held on such a drive for achieving improved loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting
The cloud platform where we create cloud web hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new messages through webmail, the content will load right away. So as to ensure even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve in this way except for the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and emails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is copied automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a few heavy sites which generate a large amount of reading and writing processes won't influence the other Internet sites that share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your site content.