A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of any app running on it as compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive features spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the prices of the two kinds of drives are also different, many desktops and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing cost and effectiveness. An Internet hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed regularly will be kept on this type of a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
If you host your Internet sites in a shared web hosting account with us, you'll notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your Internet sites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. This in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, which is an additional guarantee for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load extremely fast because we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some users may host websites that are more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system finds all the content that is loaded more frequently and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the other Internet sites which are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the potential for disk failures.