A solid-state drive is incredibly quicker than any conventional hard-disk drive. The reason is that a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, while an SDD uses modules of flash memory, so there are no actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are considerably higher, which makes these drives a preferred solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a PC and for keeping data which is accessed often on servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use a couple of SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and as a result, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is lowered since their disks need to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting
The cloud platform where we create website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mails with webmail, the content will load very quickly. In order to ensure even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. Any content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve this way except for the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased probability of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mail messages. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides extremely fast loading speed for every web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user don't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system detects files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and as a result we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their extended life-span, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a quick and reliable web hosting service.