A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every application running on it in comparison with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD uses spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. As the prices of the two types of drives are different as well, a large number of personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for file storage, this way balancing cost and effectiveness. An Internet hosting service provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files that are used regularly will be held on such a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers as to offer outstanding loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, any content which you upload to your cloud web hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to improve the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs that work exclusively as cache - our system saves repeatedly accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We take advantage of this type of a configuration to make sure that resource-demanding sites will not affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, given that the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, which is one more warranty for the safety and stability of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all of the databases and emails. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load amazingly quickly. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy Internet sites that generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes can't impact the other websites that share the same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage disks and reduce the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of protection for your content.