A solid-state drive is really quicker than any conventional hard-disk drive. This is because an HDD employs spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they become, whereas an SDD uses modules of flash memory, therefore there are no actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this type of drives the best solution in case speed is needed. That's why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a home PC and for storing data that's accessed regularly on servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use several SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and because of that, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks have to spin less frequently in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
Our modern cloud website hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you buy any of our shared web hosting packages, you will take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from high-speed SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can ensure excellent performance for all sorts of websites no matter how frequently they are accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mail messages. Together with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user don't affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their extended lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a fast and reliable Internet hosting service.