A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of any application running on it when compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. As the cost of the two types of drives are also different, a large number of PCs and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing cost and efficiency. A web hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are accessed frequently will be located on such a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting
Our innovative cloud web hosting platform uses only SSD drives, so in case you go for any of our web hosting plans, you will benefit from the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and e-mails will all load from high-speed SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching solid-state drives. A group of drives are used by our system for every file which is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can ensure fantastic performance for all sorts of sites no matter how frequently they're accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are generated on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load quickly since we employ SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. As some customers may host Internet sites which can be more frequently visited than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system detects any content which is loaded more regularly and duplicates it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the websites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the chance of disk failures.