A solid-state drive is incredibly quicker than any regular hard disk. The reason is that an HDD uses spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they get, while an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes these drives a preferred solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a home PC and for keeping data that is used frequently on web servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of both drives, so they store the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of SSDs to cache the more frequently used data and due to this fact, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks need to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
Our modern cloud hosting platform employs exclusively SSD drives, so in case you obtain any of our shared hosting plans, you will take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all open from high-speed SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A group of drives are used by our system for each file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is reduced, so we can ensure fantastic performance for all sorts of sites no matter how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and e-mail messages. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very quickly. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a number of heavy websites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other websites that share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the chance of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your site content.