A solid-state drive is considerably faster than any standard hard-disk drive. This is because a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they get, at the same time an SDD works with modules of flash memory, hence there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this sort of drives an ideal solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases used for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for saving data which is accessed repeatedly on servers. A large number of providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on hard disk drives, but they use one or more SSDs to cache the more often used data and for that reason, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is lowered as their disks have to spin less frequently to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
In case you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account with us, you'll definitely notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your Internet sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates increased traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted with us will be better. The latter subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we'll store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and email messages. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a number of heavy Internet sites which generate a lot of reading and writing processes can't affect the other websites which share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage drives and lower the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of stability for your website content.