A solid-state drive is significantly quicker than any regular hard-disk drive. The reason is that a hard-disk drive uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they get, while an SDD works with modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes this type of drives a recommended solution if speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are in many cases used for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for saving data that's used repeatedly on servers. Numerous providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on HDDs, but they use several SSDs so as to cache the more often used data and due to this fact, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks need to spin less often to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting
The cloud platform where we create shared website hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new e-mail messages with webmail, the content will load immediately. In order to ensure even greater speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All of the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve by doing this in addition to the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want speed and high-end performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a really suitable solution since they're generated on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for all aspects of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. This way, each and every website that you host with us will load fast. Just like other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the good performance all the time and whatever the type of your Internet sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both minimizes the load and provides the excellent performance of all Internet sites that load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased considering that there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.