A solid-state drive is incredibly faster than any standard hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD works by using rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they become, at the same time an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this sort of drives a recommended solution when speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a home PC and for saving data that is used regularly on servers. A large number of providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard disk drives, but they use several SSDs to cache the more often used data and for that reason, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced as their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
Our modern cloud hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so in case you go for any of our hosting plans, you can take advantage of the speed that these 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 improved performance, we use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for every file which is accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is lowered, so we can guarantee perfect performance for all kinds of sites regardless of how often they're accessed and prevent a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and email messages. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this configuration ensures extremely fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user don't affect the ones of another, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all drives, ensure their extended lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a fast and reliable Internet hosting service.