A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it when compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with 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 move, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, a large number of PCs and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, thus balancing price and performance. A hosting provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files that are used on a regular basis will be kept on this type of a drive for accomplishing improved loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our top-notch cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on the production servers as to provide lightning-fast loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all of the content that you upload to your cloud website hosting account will be accessible very fast. To boost the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that work solely as cache - our system saves frequently accessed content on them and updates it without delay. We take advantage of such a setup to ensure that multi-media loaded sites don't affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that's one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are generated on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load very quickly as we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. As some people may host websites which could be more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system detects all the content which is loaded more often and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and decreases the chance of disk failures.