A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it when compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses many different interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive functions with spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, a large number of computer systems and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, this way balancing price and effectiveness. A web hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are used very often will be held on such a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
The cloud platform where we make shared web hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new messages through webmail, the content will load immediately. In order to offer even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve by doing this apart from the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, that's 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 top-notch performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a very suitable solution because they are generated on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for all aspects of the service - e-mails, databases and files. That way, each and every Internet site that you host here will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the high performance all the time and irrespective of the nature of your sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and any frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both reduces the load and provides the fantastic performance of all websites that load directly from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased since there'll be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.