A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each application running on it in comparison to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD uses spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the prices of the two types of drives are different as well, many desktops and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for file storage, thus balancing cost and efficiency. A web hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed very often will be saved on this type of a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
If you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account with us, you'll notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your Internet sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will improve. The latter in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the potential for a disk failure, which is an additional warranty for the integrity of any content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Provided you want speed and top-notch performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a very suitable solution as they are created on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for every part of the service - e-mails, databases and files. That way, each Internet site that you host here will load fast. Just like other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the top-notch performance at all times and whatever the type of your websites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both reduces the load and guarantees the fantastic performance of all Internet sites that load directly from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased as there'll be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.