A solid-state drive is substantially quicker than any conventional hard disk. It is because a hard-disk drive uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they get, while an SDD takes advantage of modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes this sort of drives the right solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for keeping data that's used frequently on web servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard-disks, but they use several SSDs to cache the more often used data and consequently, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced because their disks have to spin less frequently to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on the production servers in order to offer outstanding loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, any content that you upload to your shared website hosting account will be accessible very quickly. In order to boost the performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs that function only as cache - our system stores regularly accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We take advantage of such a configuration to guarantee that multi-media heavy sites will never influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more warranty for the safety and integrity of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one customer won't affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system discovers files which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so that 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 of the drives, ensure their extended lifespan, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a fast and reliable Internet hosting service.