A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of each app running on it when compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs many different interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD employs spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. Because the prices of the two types of drives also differ, many personal computers and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard disk for file storage, this way balancing price and effectiveness. A hosting provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are accessed very often will be stored on this type of a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
In case you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account from our company, you will notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, e-mail 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 increase the speed of your Internet sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All content which generates more traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the chance of a disk failure, which is an additional warranty for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very quickly. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a few heavy sites that generate a large amount of reading and writing processes shall not influence the other sites that share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage disks and reduce the potential for a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of protection for your site content.